Nuestra Familia
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La Nuestra Familia (Our Family) was organized in the San Quentin, California State Prison in 1968. Inmates were tired of the abuse and victimization at the hand of the Mexican Mafia. Most of the original members of the NF were from Northern California and Central California. As the NF and Mexican Mafia engaged in a bitter prison war, new prisoners from Northern California were recruited into the NF while Southern California inmates joined the Mexican Mafia. By the late 1970s, after numerous prison riots and murders, an official dividing point emerged between the gangs in Bakersfield, California. Footsoldiers of the gang living outside of the prison are typically called Norteños (Northerners in Spanish).
[edit] Allies
- Black Guerilla Family
- Norteños
- Broadrick Norte
[edit] External links
- "Nuestra Familia" (El Andar, winter 2003)
- "Nuestra Familia, Our Family," the documentary Center for Investigative Reporting, 2006
