place for criminals, and for the purposes of protection from other inmates and business prisoners join gangs. These gangs often develop a large influence outside the prison walls through their networks. Most prison gangs do more than offer simple protection for their members. Most often, prison gangs are responsible for any drug, tobacco or alcohol handling inside correctional facilities. Furthermore, many prison gangs involve themselves in prostitution, assaults, kidnappings and murders. Prison gangs often seek to intimidate the other inmates, pressuring them to relinquish their food and other resources. In addition, prison gangs often exercise a large degree of influence over organized crime in the "free world", larger than their isolation in prison might lead one to expect. Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital) (São Paulo, Brazil) Vory v zakone (вор в законе) (Prisons in Russia and other post-Soviet countries) The Numbers Gang (Prisons in South Africa) See also The Ninevites Brödraskapet (The Brotherhood) (Kumla Prison, Sweden) The Overcoat Gang (Prisons in Australia) Philippines New Bilibid Prison Commandos Wild Boys of DaPeCol (Davao) Prison gangs in the United States White Aryan Brotherhood Dead Man Incorporated Public Enemy No. 1 Nazi Lowriders Soldiers of Aryan Culture European Kindred Aryan Circle 211 Crew Peckerwoods Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Hispanic Barrio Azteca Mexican Mafia (La Eme) Nuestra Familia Texas Syndicate (Syndicato Tejano) Ñetas Puro Tango Blast Mexikanemi Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos African American Black Guerrilla Family D.C. Blacks United Blood Nation KUMI 415 People Nation Folk Nation Street gangs Youth gangs have often served as a recruiting ground for more organized crime syndicates, where juvenile delinquents grow up to be full-fledged mobsters, as well as providing muscle and other low-key work. Increasingly, especially in the United States and other western countries, street gangs are becoming much more organized in their own right with a hierarchical structure and are fulfilling the role previously taken by traditional organized crime. North America Friends Stand United Freight Train Riders of America (alleged) Juggalo gangs Albanian Boys Inc Chicago TAP Boyz Simon City Royals Chicago Gaylords Jousters Almighty Saints Popes Italian-American street gangs 10th and Oregon Crew South Brooklyn Boys Forty-Two Gang The Tanglewood Boys Green Street Counts Zoe Pound Pacific-Islander American gangs Sons of Samoa Tongan Crip Gang Native Mob Savage Skulls (defunct) African-American Chicago Gangster Disciples Mickey Cobras Black Disciples Vice Lords Black P. Stones Four Corner Hustlers OutLaw Gangster Disciples Black P.