understand, mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington, this is your opportunity at this time to make a choice. it was almost like a warning, and then as i was listening to him and it just got loud somewhere more impassioned as he went, i realized he was making sure that everybody, all of the inmates, knew what was going on, these three guys were getting a second chance. now, i want you to show them, i want you to show this department that you can stand and make a difference. i know you might say, big sam, i don t think he s talking to me right. i just want you to know, that s just the way it is. nothing personal. this is a jail. you got a life ahead of you. what you do with it is on you. at one point in the speech, big sam was warning these inmates that because they were being let out of the situation, they may be viewed as snitches. you know just as well as i do, it will come back. why they let bill out?
mexican mafia and the tango orejones, pose the greatest throat security. but according to gang investigator officer rodriguez, there are only two pieces in a complicated puzzle. in the bexar county jail, there are approximately nine prison gangs, but uncountable number of street gangs. street gangs pop up, literally overnight sometimes. and dissolve as quick lip however, prison gangs have a lot more of a thicker history, it s a larger population, they re actually nationwide. one of the larger gang is the aryan brotherhood. aryan brotherhood is a true prison gang like the mexican mafia. they have a constitution, a hierarchy, a paramilitary structure. at hispanic bexar county jail, the gang is characteristically quiet. the white population is very low. 48 inmates but 10 whites in
member of the mexican mafia. the informant explained he was given direct orders to engage in a riot that will happen at 8:00 on this specified day. every member of the mafia is required to participate, no exceptions. the problem was, we had no way to validate the information given to us. so we didn t know, you know, do we lock down the jail? do we wait and see what happens? what exactly are we going to do at this point? by this time, we were hours away from when he said the riots were going to happen. so we went ahead and put our cert team, special response team, on standby and just as the informant said, 7:45 in the annex, when the first altercation began. and domino effect occurred. get on the floor. we were not present to cover the riot, the jail did provide us with footage of the aftermath shot by the special response team officers. we don t know the exact reason why the mafia order the
we re doing our thing, someone walked out there, take [ bleep ] off the cart. if we don t get it back right now, we re going door-to-door, we re seeing everything you ain t supposed to have. so whoever did it, now, take the punishment so we don t punish the rest of the pod. [ bleep ]. whoever took something, give it up. if you don t, everyone s going to suffer. man [ bleep ]. as minimal as it seems, the fact that somebody stole candy, it s still taken seriously because it s a theft. that s the way it s going to roll. [ bleep ]. jail has to show that they re going to hold everybody accountable for any type of infraction. and they don t tolerate any type of illegal activity.
with it. while mclaren stayed on top of the activities of several gangs, one in particular required most of his attention. the jail s largest and most violent gang, the heartless felons. heartless felons is a gang that was basically established in our facilities, some young individuals, many of them, was upset and tired of how they was being treated, how they were being disrespected. they formed, they retaliated against anyone they felt disrespected them. they pressed other individuals to join, to distort, you name it, they do it. become very violent, they re persistent. and they don t mind to lend people know what they generally is. they ll say, i want your food tray, give it here. you don t do anything about it. they got you. then, after a while, they ll you you want us to stop picking on you, you have to join us. you don t want to continue to