prison

  • Nov 28, 2003

    Prison Gang Puts Role of FBI Informants Under Scrutiny

    A U.S. Justice Department attempt to break up one of California’s most powerful gangs, the Nuestra Familia, put FBI agents and local police in charge of gangster informants as their fellow gang members plotted and carried out murders, assaults and other major crimes, court documents and FBI reports uncovered by CIR reveal.

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  • Nov 23, 2003

    The Last Disenfranchised Class

    It was 1986, and Jan Warren knew she had to do something to change her life. She wanted to get home to California where her father had just died and left her a produce business. But Warren, 35, was stuck on the East Coast with no money, in a dead-end relationship and pregnant. Desperate, she made a mistake: She agreed to sell cocaine for her cousin.

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