<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/515c8453eab8ea8c7a000003-620-465/gang2.jpg?maxX=400" border="0" alt="gang" width="400" /></div><p class="source"><a href="http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ocgs/gangs/prison.html">Justice.gov</a></p></div><span>The cold-blooded </span>assassinations of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-da-killing-is-unprecedented-2013-4">two Texas prosecutors</a>, and their suspected link to the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-aryan-brotherhood-of-texas-2013-4">Aryan Brotherhood of Texas</a>, have placed American <a href="http://www.gangsorus.com/prison_gang_history.htm">prison gangs</a> in the spotlight.</p>
<p>The drug war <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-prison-system-is-out-of-control-2012-4">has caused</a> the U.S. <keyword id="6362397" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Prison">prison</keyword> population to explode. Ironically, these groups fuel the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/16-maps-of-drug-flow-into-the-united-states-2012-7">drug trade</a> from the inside.</p>
<p>We gathered information from the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ocgs/gangs/prison.html">Department of Justice</a> and <a href="http://www.gangsorus.com/background.htm">gang expert and teacher Robert Walker</a> to get an idea of who the baddest of the bad are.</p>

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America's 11 Most Powerful Prison Gangs 

Justice.govThe cold-blooded assassinations of two Texas prosecutors, and their suspected link to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, have placed American prison gangs in the spotlight. The drug war has caused the U.S. prison population to explode. Ironically, these groups fuel the drug trade from the inside. We gathered information from the Department of Justice and gang expert and teacher Robert Walker to get an idea of who the baddest of the bad are.

Justice. govThe cold-blooded assassinations of two Texas prosecutors, and their suspected link to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, have placed American prison gangs in the spotlight.

America's 11 Most Powerful Prison Gangs

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