La Nuestra Familia/Prison Gang

The La Nuestra Familia (NF) originated in Soledad, now San Quentin, prison in
California in the mid-1960's and was formed to protect younger, rural, Mexican-American inmates from other inmates. The NF sold protection to these inmates who were fearful of the Mexican Mafia (EME). Former EME members who opposed EME tactics of preying on their own started the gang. This prison gang operates in the California prison institute mainly in the northern prisons and is highly structured with the general being the one that makes decisions affecting the group. …