How 5 Prison Gangs Actually Work — From The Bloods To Nuestra Familia | How Crime Works Marathon

John "Boxer" Mendoza is a former high-ranking member of the Nuestra Familia. He was part of the organization from 1994 to 2007 and was incarcerated at San Quentin, Pelican Bay, and Corcoran. Nowadays, he has a YouTube channel called Paradigm Media News and is the author of Nuestra Familia. Manuel Medrano is a former member of the Arizona Mexican Mafia, also known as the New Mexican Mafia, a US prison gang. Medrano speaks with Business Insider about the gang structure, hierarchy, and its ties to the cartels. He covers gang tattoos, language, and the loose alliance the gang had with the Aryan Brotherhood. Medrano now runs Phase Two of Life, a charity in Arizona. He also runs the YouTube channel Chronicles, where he speaks with former gang members. Vidal Guzman was a member of the East Coast Bloods and was incarcerated on Rikers Island. Rikers Island, in New York City's East River, is home to some of the most notorious and violent jails in the world. Most of its detainees have not yet been convicted of a crime and are either remanded in custody or held on bail. Guzman is a prominent voice in the Close Rikers campaign and the executive director of America on Trial. He founded the End Qualified Immunity in NY and #FixThe13thNY campaigns. Pieter Tritton, a former cocaine smuggler, speaks with BI about his experience trafficking drugs from South America to the United Kingdom. Tritton was arrested in Ecuador and served 10 years in prison there, first in Garcia Moreno in Quito and later in Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, which is home to some of the world's most violent prison gangs. Leroy Smith was a member of the African Crew prison gang in the UK during the early 2000s. Smith became a hit man and a drug dealer for the African Crew during his time as a category A inmate in the Full Sutton, Frankland, Long Lartin, and Whitemoor high-security prisons. He speaks with BI about the violence and weapons, smuggling contraband, selling drugs, and becoming a hit man for the gang. Find out more: John Mendoza https://www.youtube.com/@PARADIGMMEDIANEWS/ Manuel Medrano phasetwooflife.org/ Vidal Guzman www.vidalguzman.org Pieter Tritton https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/239156/pieter-tritton Leroy Smith https://outoftheboxbook.uk MORE HOW CRIME WORKS VIDEOS: How The Mongols Motorcycle Club Actually Works (Biker Gangs) | How Crime Works | Insider https://youtu.be/mrmMBHJBbbc How 6 Criminal Businesses Actually Work — from Money Laundering to Gun Smuggling | Marathon https://youtu.be/gy5Dlo96nto How Prison Gangs (UK) Actually Work | How Crime Works | Insider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggznBcFJffQ ------------------------------------------------------ #prison #howcrimeworks #insider Insider's mission is to inform and inspire. Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: https://www.businessinsider.com/ Insider on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/insider Insider on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insider Insider on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisisinsider Insider on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Insider/2708030621 Insider on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@insider How 5 Prison Gangs Actually Work — From The Nuestra Familia to the Bloods | How Crime Works Marathon