Manuel Medrano is a former member of the Arizona Mexican Mafia, also known as the New Mexican Mafia, a US prison gang. He was in and out of the Arizona Department of Corrections for 20 years and served time for armed robbery and drug trafficking.
Medrano speaks with Business Insider about the gang structure and hierarchy, as well as ties to the cartels. He covers gang tattoos, language, and rivalries with the Border Brothers. He also talks about the loose alliance the gang had with the Aryan Brotherhood. Medrano discusses corrupt prison guards and offers his opinion on mass incarceration and US drug policy.Â
Medrano now runs Phase Two of Life, an Arizona-based charity. He also runs the YouTube channel Chronicles, where he speaks to former gang members.
The Mexican Mafia, also known as La Eme, originated in 1957 in the California prison system. According to law enforcement, the gang is splintered into the New Mexican Mafia, founded in Florence, Arizona, around 1974, and other factions. Many prison gangs in the US take the name Mexican Mafia, including the Mexikanemi, or Texas Mexican Mafia.Â
Find out more: phasetwooflife.orgÂ
https://www.youtube.com/c/CHRONICLES1
00:00 – Intro
00:27 – Joining the Gang
02:57 – The Rules
06:06 – The Expansion
07:14 – The Hierarchy
08:29 – The Rivalries
11:18 – On the Street
13:57 – The Money
16:45 – The Recruitment
18:17 – The Codes
21:02 – The Guards
25:13 – The Sting
30:06 – The Aftermath
32:08 – The Future
33:47 – Credits
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Finally someone who is telling stuff that hasn´t been told on YT a million times before. Very interesting, well done both Insider and Manuel. Manuel seems like a good guy.
Thanks for watching!
He literally said he’s a murderer but a good guy?
​@@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVicican’t erase his past but some people can change. When you get brought up in the system from a young age you don’t always know anything else. Doesn’t excuse his actions, but maybe as he got older and got wiser, maybe he changed and understood his actions, etc. Being a good person doesn’t mean you have to be perfect, all your life. Good people can later make very bad decisions to become bad people, just as bad people can make good decisions to become good people. Doesn’t erase what they did in the past. All you can do is move forward
@@GotKimchi no redemption once you’ve crossed that line.
@@GotKimchi Nah.. Like Sex Offenders you don’t actually “change” you just live with it.. Stop thinking that way
Stamps used to be the prison standard currency. That was back when you could send unused books out to be cashed in. Nowadays, send-outs are the standard. Since you can’t put money on people’s books unless they’re a pre-approved visitor (in most places now), nor can you just walk into a post office and cash in stamps nowadays
This was better than any episode of The Connect.
White guy is a member of the Mexican Mafia?
2024 and my people-raza still drinking that kool-aid