Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy - Paperback
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Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy
In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power in the Texas prison system and ultimately became a powerful transnational criminal organization.
Kolb describes the prison dynamic of predator and prey and the need for the prey to unify for...
JOSEPH J. KOLB, MA, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a veteran detention officer in New Mexico and serves as the training coordinator and cofounder for the New Mexico Gang Investigators Association. He has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate classes in the Criminal Justice programs at Western New Mexico University and the University of New Mexico-Gallup campuses. He is the...
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