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But that system was finally abolished in 1980, as a result of the federal court case of Ruiz v. The officers favored white inmates as their tenders, and these men had nearly total control behind the walls. In the 1970s, under the direction of Texas Department of Corrections chief George Beto, Texas prisons used a brutal “trusty system,” in which corrections officers used certain inmates, known as “building tenders,” to carry out physical punishments of other inmates. Like the similarly named but unrelated group Aryan Brotherhood, the origins of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas go back to the desegregation of prisons and the racial conflicts that resulted. Former ABT member Bobby Adams, interviewed in “Aryan Terror,” Gangland series, History Channel, 2009 Background We didn’t take or accept rapists or child molesters or snitches or nothing like that.”

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We considered ourselves to be professional criminals. “It was all about looking out for ourselves - spiritually, financially, physically. Jason “Trooper” Hankins, interviewed in “Aryan Terror,” Gangland series, History Channel, 2009 You may not even realize that - they all don’t have shaved heads and tattoos.” I mean you’re going to run into them everywhere.

A poem written by a “peckerwood,” as ABT members sometimes refer to themselves In times we turn cold, ruthless and hard, Warbirds and bolts are all that we think. We will fight to the finish, till all strength is gone. None of that matters while the battle is on Knowing some of us will get hurt and die.

Was passed on to us from brothers before. People try to down us with each passing day. In joints all over and from around the ways The rules we live by are carved in stone, Texas convicts, soldiers, and solid outlaws! “We’re peckerwood soldiers, down for our cause Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Constitution. The gang follows the late terrorist David Lane’s “14 Words,” a white supremacist motto: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.” Unlike many other more flamboyant racist prison gangs, members of the ABT pride themselves on anonymity and their ability to blend in the general population as “suburban gangsters” on the outside.