e the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, Aryan Circle, Barrio Aztecas, Bloods, Crips, La Hermanos De Pistoleros Latinos, Mexican Mafia, Raza Unida, Texas Chicano Brotherhood, Texas Mafia, and Texas Syndicate. The above listed security threat group's are divided mainly among racial lines. The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas originated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in the early 1980's. The geographic location is confined strictly to Texas and does not recruit members outside of Texas. It is based on the same ideas of the Aryan Brotherhood, but is not a faction of the group and lays no claim to affiliation of its members. "The gang is comprised of mostly white racist inmates"(F.B.P., 1994, p. 30). Members of this gang practice the ideas of "White Power" and "the advance of the supreme white race". The gang utilizes a council t!
             hat oversees operations and issues orders for organized crime or violent activities. The council is made up of certain offenders from prison units across the st
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