La Fratellanza ariana (conosciuta anche come AB, acronimo di Aryan Brotherhood) è una gang neonazista carceraria statunitense che conta all'incirca 14.000 membri tra detenuti e non, sia uomini che donne dell'area di estrema destra[1][2]. Secondo l'FBI, sebbene il gruppo rappresenti meno dello 0,1% della popolazione carceraria, è responsabile di oltre il 30% degli omicidi che avvengono nelle prigioni statunitensi[
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00:11A gang manages its territory through shady deals, terror and a precise code.
00:21Break this code, host the criminal gang, and your fate is sealed.
00:31Especially if you're dealing with America's most violent prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood.
00:39From its birth in the 60s in California to its spread in prisons throughout the United States,
00:46We'll tell you three stories that explain how the gang got its fearsome reputation.
00:52In the first, one of its most violent members challenges the national leader of a rival gang.
01:00Silverstein stabbed him more than 63 times.
01:04In the second, the Brotherhood breaks its own code and takes revenge on one of its ex-men.
01:11In prison they say, in the infirmary they spy.
01:14And finally, the gang's leadership uses a secret message to launch an attack on its biggest rival.
01:22He wrote the letter in ink so he was invisible to start the war.
01:26In this episode we will explore the history of the Aryan Brotherhood.
01:31This is Gange Criminali, the dark chronicles.
01:411964
01:43Marin County, California
01:47The state’s oldest prison, San Quentin, has just desegregated its inmates.
01:54Black and white inmates now serve their sentences side by side.
01:59The climate is very tense.
02:02What happened in the 1960s, the black marches, the beatings, also entered the prisons.
02:12It didn't matter who you were, only whether you were black or white.
02:16There were stabbings just because of skin color.
02:20A situation out of control.
02:23Both factions form gangs to protect each other.
02:28Some white people, who were seasoned and unscrupulous killers, decided to create an organization for the protection of
02:37whites.
02:38They decide to call themselves the Aryan Brotherhood.
02:43They accepted only the most ruthless and murderous inmates into their ranks.
02:49To join the gang, you must accept a macabre principle, known as blood in, blood out.
02:57Blood in the hole means that to enter the organization you must first commit an attack.
03:04And blood out, that the only way to get out of the gang is to die.
03:09Once a new member is accepted, he must be ready to kill for the gang anywhere and anytime.
03:17moment, no questions asked.
03:22The Aryan Brotherhood quickly developed a reputation as an extremely violent gang.
03:28During the 1970s, the Aryan Brotherhood spread from California to several prisons throughout the United States and
03:36creates a top body made up of three people.
03:40It slowly transforms from a gang created to protect prisoners into an efficient money-making machine.
03:47The Aryan Brotherhood focused on drugs because that was where the real economic power was.
03:52The Aryan Brotherhood deals heroin from outside, generating huge profits for the gang.
04:00In 1978, the FBI estimated that the Aryan Brotherhood earned $3.5 million in Folsom Prison.
04:08of dollars, mainly with drugs.
04:10The Aryan Brotherhood also sells dangerous weapons, which it crafts from improvised materials.
04:18In a typewriter there was a bar with a small piece of metal inside, similar to a
04:23ice pick, which was used to kill an inmate.
04:27And for inmates who don't want to get their hands dirty, the Brotherhood offers another service.
04:34The Aryan Brotherhood was hired by other gangs to carry out prison killings.
04:42But prison murders trigger reprisals.
04:46And in the early 1980s, one of these contract killers would spark a war in the nation's prisons.
04:581982, Williamson County, Illinois.
05:02At that time, the federal penitentiary in Marion was the most secure prison in the country.
05:09Marion was built to replace Alcatraz.
05:13So they started sending all the most dangerous prisoners there.
05:19Among them is well-known Aryan Brotherhood member Tommy Silverstein.
05:26Tommy Silverstein was a performer.
05:30For the gang he killed without the slightest hesitation.
05:35Silverstein is serving a life sentence for the contract killing of Robert Chappelle,
05:41member of the DC Blacks, the most widespread black prison gang in the country.
05:45But Chappelle's death provokes a reaction from the national leader of the DC Blacks, Raymond Smith, known as Cadillac.
05:54Cadillac Smith began threatening Silverstein.
05:59I swear I'll kill you.
06:00It's like I'm already dead.
06:03So it was clear to the prison guards that one of the two would kill the other.
06:10September 27, 1982.
06:14Marion Federal Penitentiary.
06:17Notorious Aryan Brotherhood hitman Tommy Silverstein
06:21has just received a death threat from DC Blacks national leader Cadillac Smith.
06:28Silverstein knows the choice is kill or be killed.
06:32But killing Smith risks sparking a wider conflict between the two gangs.
06:37In those years, if you were part of the Aryan Brotherhood,
06:41unless it was another gang member,
06:45you didn't have to ask permission to kill someone.
06:48With the help of Clay Fountain, another gang member,
06:52Silverstein ambushes Cadillac Smith in the prison showers.
06:58Fountain attacks him, but Smith is faster than him.
07:03Cadillac Smith appears to have Tommy Silverstein under its thumb.
07:08Unarmed Silverstein pounced on Cadillac Smith,
07:14he threw him to the ground, snatched the knife from his hand
07:18and started stabbing him.
07:23He stabbed me more than 63 times.
07:30The brutal murder of the national leader of the DC Blacks
07:34costs Tommy Silverstein another life sentence.
07:38But the trail of blood is not yet exhausted.
07:41And that very crime sparked a war.
07:46The two gangs were constantly fighting each other.
07:51Over the next 15 years, the Aryan Brotherhood kills dozens of members of the DC Blacks
07:56and hurts countless others in prisons across the country.
08:02Instead of fearing punishment,
08:04whoever killed a prisoner saw his reputation rise in prison
08:08and their rank in the gang, so the members of the organization
08:11they were actually incentivized to commit murder.
08:15But just as the Aryan Brotherhood declares war on the DC Blacks,
08:20the gang finds itself engaged on another explosive front.
08:23A conflict within your organization
08:27which will push his cruelty to an even higher level.
08:361982
08:36Cino Prison, California
08:40The Aryan Brotherhood has a problem.
08:44His name is Stephen Barnes.
08:47Stephen Barnes was serving a sentence for murder
08:51and he was a hero in Oman.
08:56He had been accepted into the Aryan brotherhood
08:59and had been an exemplary member for a while.
09:04Barnes sees two members of the brotherhood,
09:37the brotherhood Blinky Griffin, Junior Snyder,
09:37he was a prison spy.
09:40In a prison, no one is hated anymore by the inmates
09:44of a spy who collaborates with justice
09:47in exchange for a reduction in his sentence.
09:50In prison the spy is called the infirmary.
09:53For the Aryan Brotherhood, a prisoner who chooses to speak out
09:58he just deserves to die.
10:00There is no mercy for him.
10:05The only good spy is a dead spy.
10:08The Aryan Brotherhood wants Stephen Barnes dead.
10:13But the prisoner has already been placed under protection.
10:17Determined to take revenge,
10:19the brotherhood takes a move unprecedented in its history.
10:24They thought, if we can't get Stephen,
10:27we can get to his mother or his father.
10:30Whoever of his family we can catch, we kill.
10:36It's a perfect opportunity
10:38to discourage anyone from betraying the gang.
10:43The idea was to murder people's family members
10:47who testified against the brotherhood.
10:50Stephen Barnes will pay a very high price
10:54for betraying the gang.
10:591982
11:01Cino, California State Prison.
11:05The Aryan Brotherhood is considering killing a family member
11:08by former member Stephen Barnes.
11:10But the murder of innocent family members of gang members
11:13it is against the code of brotherhood.
11:16Don't harm women, the elderly
11:19and certainly not to children.
11:21It shocked me that anyone would think of doing this.
11:25The plan is put to the vote.
11:28I was the only one to vote against
11:31and in the end the majority voted in favor of killing Stephen's father.
12:04February 1983.
12:06behind the neck.
12:08Stephen Barnes' father was absolutely innocent, a good man.
12:16After the episode, Michael Thompson also leaves the Aryan Brotherhood
12:21and begins testifying against the gang.
12:26In 1986, Curtis Price was convicted of the murder of Richard Barnes.
12:32and in 2021 he will die on death row.
12:38Stephen Barnes manages to save himself from vengeance at the hands of the Aryan Brotherhood.
12:45But he can't escape his heroin addiction.
12:50He couldn't bear life anymore
12:53and the guilt he felt over his father's death.
12:57Barnes contracts AIDS from a contaminated syringe
13:01and died in 1992.
13:04But spies aren't the only thing the gang has to worry about.
13:09An old enemy is gaining ground
13:12and to make him retreat,
13:15The brotherhood must succeed in getting him to the most secure prison in the United States.
13:21A secret message.
13:25August 1997
13:27Florence, Colorado
13:29Here is what is now the most secure prison in America.
13:34The ADX
13:36It is in fact a structure in which one is locked up
13:39in a single cell for 23 hours a day.
13:42You can only go out for an hour.
13:44It was built specifically for inmates from prisons
13:48who cannot manage them in a normal prison context.
13:51Two out of three of the national leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood
13:56they are locked up there
13:57T.D. Bingham and Barry Mills
14:00called the Red Baron
14:02Barry Mills
14:04he was called the Red Baron
14:07because like the German Red Baron
14:10had killed many people.
14:14T.D. Bingham is without a doubt the most dangerous man I have ever met.
14:19he was a mourner
14:21a corpulent man
14:23They called him Hulk and I think they still do today
14:27It's been 15 years since Tommy Silverstein started the war between the Aryan Brotherhood
14:34and the DC Blacks
14:37Gang violence in East Coast prisons is on the rise.
14:42and culminates with the killing of a brotherhood member in Lewisburg
14:47in Pennsylvania
14:48where the DC Blacks are numerically superior
14:52The Aryan Brotherhood could not tolerate it.
14:56because in fact we need to get into the mindset that in prison
14:59the concept of power is really fundamental
15:05From ADX Prison
15:08Bingham and Mills are tired of hearing what the DC Blacks are doing in Lewisburg
15:13and they want the brotherhood members held in that prison to do something
15:18They had decided that the time had come to take revenge and show
15:24to the DC Blacks gang who wouldn't step aside
15:29But how can prisoners communicate from 2,400 kilometers away?
15:36from ADX to Lewisburg Prison in Pennsylvania?
15:471997
15:48Aryan Brotherhood leaders detained in Colorado
15:52They want to send a secret message to Lewisburg Prison in Pennsylvania
15:57to order the brotherhood to launch an attack against the DC Blacks
16:02TD Bingham has a plan to evade the tight security at both facilities
16:07He thought of using his urine to write with invisible ink
16:14As is known, urine contains ammonia.
16:18Once it dries, if you pass a flame under the sheet
16:22heat darkens ammonia
16:24and the message appears on the paper in brown
16:29Once you have completed your message with invisible ink
16:32Bingham writes a normal personal letter
16:35There is a procedure for filtering inmates' mail
16:39to allow content control
16:41Thanks to a released brotherhood member
16:45Bingham manages to get the letter to Lewisburg into Benton's hands.
16:49called Big Al, who passes it over an open flame
16:53And what does the letter say when they pass it over a lighter?
16:57He wages war against the DC Blacks
17:04The Aryan Brotherhood of Lewisburg has no choice
17:09He must strike a decisive blow and his long-time rivals inside the field
17:18August 28, 1997
17:21The gang launches a terrifying attack
17:25A melee assault against the DC Blacks
17:30Six men entered three cells with knives
17:34Two for each cell
17:37In a clash
17:39Two against two
17:40Six inmates are stabbed
17:44And two are killed
17:45In the most famous attack of a 15-year conflict
17:50The event will kick off a nationwide investigation
17:53On the Aryan Brotherhood
17:57Five years after the Lewisburg attack
18:0040 members including TD Bingham and Barry Mills
18:04They are sent to trial
18:06There are more than 30 charges
18:08Between murder and attempted murder
18:10And the process is based on the Rico Act.
18:15According to the Rico Act
18:17If you are part of a gang
18:18You are also responsible for crimes committed by other members
18:22Just like in the case of the mafia
18:24For leaders
18:25The prosecutor is asking for the death sentence
18:28The Brotherhood's leaders were already serving life sentences.
18:33Without the possibility of parole
18:35Another one wouldn't have made a difference to them.
18:38So we asked for the death penalty
18:40In the end, the California jury delivers 30 convictions
18:45But the gang leaders manage to escape the death penalty
18:49The mistake was not cutting off the snake's head.
18:54Namely Barry Mills, TD Bingham and other key members of the brotherhood.
18:59Barry Mills died in prison in 2018
19:03TD Bingham is still being held in ADX prison
19:08Today the Aryan Brotherhood has about 20,000 members throughout the country.
19:13And under the leadership of TD Bingham
19:16Continues to instill fear in US prisons
19:19There are very few prisons in which the Aryan Brotherhood is held.
19:24It is not present in some form
19:25They are well organized and extremely dangerous
19:30The FBI estimated that although members of the Aryan Brotherhood
19:34They are less than one in a thousand compared to the national prison population
19:39They are responsible for 18% of all murders that occur in prison.
19:45The gang is responsible for hundreds and hundreds of deaths
19:49And he continues to commit crimes
19:51Keeping the Aryan Brotherhood under control is crucial
19:56Both for the safety of prison guards
19:59Both for that of the prisoners themselves
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