Nuestra Familia

represent memento mori (skulls in particular) tattooed is fascinating. For example, in Latin American culture, skulls are tattooed following the loss of a loved one in association with Dia de los Muertos. In fact, sometimes people even get complete skeletons tattooed in order to commemorate lost loved ones, which is for many a way to accept that their lost loved ones are no longer corporeally with the living. Beyond skeletons, there are a specialized set of symbols associated with memorial tattoos in Latin American culture. A subset of these memorial tattoos are prison tattoos. For example, the three largest gangs in Mexico, the Mexican Mafia, La Nuestra Familia, and Los Vatos Locos, all have gang-specific memorial tattoos. The Mexican Mafia typical tattoo when a member has fallen is an eagle with a snake in its mouth. For La Nuestra Familia, the typical memorial tattoo is a sombrero laid over a blood-covered machete. Los Vatos Locos commemorate lost members via a triangle of three small dots. Beyond gang tattoos, there are also the infamous tear drop memorial tattoos. There are two types of tear drop tattoos. Open tear drops commemorate those who the tattooed person has killed, with the number of tear drops indicating the number of victims. Solid tear drops, on the other hand, indicate that someone close to the person wearing the tattoo has died, whether that be a family member, a close friend, or another gang member. The tattoos present in Latin American culture are very…

respect (Ferranti). It is a whole culture unto itself, where if you buy into it, you have to buy in fully, because there is no room for error it in prison gangs (Ferranti). These gangs are in prisons all across American but in some areas these gang organizations are not as developed as they are in other areas. California has the highest number of known and well developed prison gangs, more than any other states. Although their numbers are small in Florida prisons, if left unmonitored they…

Around 100km east of Seville in Spain lies a residential community of 2,700 individuals called Marinaleda. It's one of numerous farming based towns and towns in the area of Seville, encompassed by endless supply of level, horticultural fields. What makes Marinaleda diverse, undoubtedly from anyplace else in Spain and potentially Europe as well, is that for as far back as thirty years it has been a focal point of proceeding with work battle and a place where a living, creating and real type of…

With decades of living under the unrelenting and brutal control of a multitude of drug cartels, the people of Michoacan, a state in southwestern Mexico, enthusiastically welcomed the unlawful organization of the vigilante, self-defense group known as the Autodefensas. Founded in 2013 and headed by Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the Autodefensas were made up of local men in the rural state who shared one common goal: reclamation of the towns that were being run by the Knights Templar, a violent drug…

Since 2006, the intrastate Mexican Drug War has been an international example of continued policy failure. The complex conflict includes various actors, all of which play a different but important role. There are seven main drug cartels: Beltran-Leyva, Gulf, Juarez, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and Tijuana/Arellano Felix. Each cartel maintains its own territory, and some areas are disputed among cartels. For example, Los Zetas controls the Central North and some of the Southeast…

This resulted in 5,300 deaths in 2008. The violence has continued to escalate, with an estimated of 70,000 to 130,000 deaths between December 2006 & December 2013. In 2012, Felipe Calderon was succeeded as president. In October 2012, the mexican military forces killed Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, the leader of Los Zetas Cartel. The death of Lazcano was the biggest victory in the war on drugs in over a decade. Further success came in 2013. In July, Lazcano successor, Miguel Treviño Morales, was…

security department assumed that the unregistered and registered gangs would be two or four times more than that. And according to the report, which was released in 2009 (Monterey County sees gang threat growing in different) it showed that, the Monterey County has 2,500 to 3,499 gangsters. A few later, another static came to the media. It showed increasing of gangster to 5, 5000 in 2011. The Salinas gang likes other gangs is a family gang, and most of these gangster consist in two criminal…

they please. Gangs are a major issue in the way people live their lives. A large majority of the inmates at Pelican Bay belong to one of these six gangs: Nuestra Familia, the Mexican Mafia, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Black Guerrilla Family, the Northern Structure, or the Nazi Low-rides. Since there are so many different gangs the inmates interact with each other violently. “They’ll walk around,…

Over- Incarceration of Women in the U.S.(Sniffen,2017). Although some women can spend time with their children (Clear, Cole, Reisig, et al. 2017). A positive factor in women's jail is there are many prison programs available for women rehabilitation. Such as counseling, education, AA, educational and vocational programs. Ged is available and vocational programs for job skills are available. Women have more health problems than men and need medical attention when pregnant. There are many…

are incapable of being around each other without one having a problem with the other, there is a higher risk of an inmate becoming threatened or hurt. Changes should be made to prevent prison violence, such as gangs, rape, and deaths because gangs cause harmful events, rape causes disease, and deaths cause hurt to others. Changes in Prison Gangs Prison gangs are seen as the “Gods” of the prison. Most prisons have several gang members within their walls. One prison in California has several,…