Until the 1960s, most prisons in the United States were racially segregated. As prisons began to desegregate, inmates organized along racial lines. The first of a series of trials involving four high level members ended in convictions in July of 2006. Two of the four went through a death penalty hearing and the jury deadlocked. Before sentencing federal prosecutors filed a request that once the sentencing was over, the four would live out their sentences in solitary confinement, banned from communicating with anyone except their attorneys. The judge refused to rule on the request, telling prosecutors to file it with the US Attorney General and they immediately withdrew. One was sentenced to four life terms, two were sentenced to three life terms, all without the possibility of parole, and one has yet to be sentenced. Some members are still awaiting trial.
Relations with other gangsRaines (2007)
Miami Vice (2006)
Prison Break (2005-present)
Hard Time (2004-06)
The Suffering (2004)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Lockdown (2000)
American History X (1998)
Oz (1997-2003)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Higher Learning (1995)
Blood in Blood out (1993)
American Me (1992)
South Central (1992)
An Innocent Man (1989)
