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According to the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) is one of the largest and most violent white supremacist prison gangs in the United States, responsible for numerous murders and other violent crimes. Despite the similarity in their names, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is not affiliated with the “original” Aryan Brotherhood, the notorious prison gang founded in California in the 1960s and existing primarily in California and the federal prison systems. Though the Aryan Brotherhood denied their request to found a Texas chapter,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://archive.org/stream/TexasGangs/texas-gangs_djvu.txt )〕 the ABT was nonetheless established in the 1980s, following the desegregation of Texas prisons and the dismantling of the "Building Tender", or Trusty system, a system in which prison officials used other inmates to help maintain order in the prisons. These major and more or less simultaneous changes created an atmosphere of uncertainty and a lack of control that proved fertile breeding grounds for black, Hispanic and white race-based prison gangs. These gangs soon became the top predators in the Texas prison system. The various white gangs, with names like the Aryan Society and the Aryan Brothers, mostly adopted a relatively crude white supremacist ideology. In the early to mid-1980s, most of the members of these two gangs united to become the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, while others left out of the merger later helped form the rival Aryan Circle prison gang. From its beginning, the ABT emerged as one of the most violent gangs in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, committing 13 murders in 1984-1985 alone. ==History== In March 1985, prospect Virgil Barfield carried out an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas order to kill Calvin Massey. Barfield stabbed Massey 42 times. The violent attack was caught on camera. The video clip helped prosecutors to convict Barfield in the murder of Massey. Virgil Barfield was sentenced to life in prison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Prison Guards will Shoot )〕 In 2001, Mark Stroman received the death penalty for his killing spree on Middle Eastern people. He claimed it was a retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks. However all three people that he target were of South Asian descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Texas Man Executed for Killing Middle Eastern Store Clerk )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Texas Prosecutor ‘Involved’ in Aryan Brotherhood Investigation is Slain )〕〔(Texas executes 9/11 'revenge' killer ) publish by theguardian.com〕 On September 21, 2006, gangs members of the ABT, were charged in the death of a young woman named Breanna Taylor. According to investigations from the authorities, Taylor was tortured, sexually assaulted, and murdered by ABT gang members. After she was killed, they poured acid on her body, and then put her body in a tub, poured cement on it and dumped it into a river. Dale Jameton pleaded guilty and received a life sentence, and Jennifer McClellan was sentenced to 20 years in prison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Still an Aryan Blood Brother )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= For Love, Aryan Brotherhood Killer Confesses )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Texas Aryan Brotherhood Members Charged with Capital Murder )〕 In 2011, Terry Sillers, a former General of the ABT gang, was arrested after leading police on a wild motorcycle chase near Fort Worth. In exchange for cooperating with authorities against a gang that he says betrayed him, he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.〔(Terry "Lil Wood" Sillers police chase ) published on January 4, 2015〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Tattoos on fists spell possible reason for man exposing Aryan Brotherhood gang )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aryan Brotherhood of Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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