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Names ClinniIne te © oa . oe ca Nuestra Familia plans its conquésts: UEZ State Serate investigators bave___ Cafteratan Stat W Catton, wens and Northern identified the top men in the Coifornian Staff Writer ~ Oa ene formed to protect rdralFatnilia structure as Robert Ste page, name of Ts “ . city and atate,) (Last of two parts) i ban-based .Babo! Sosa and ‘Death Row” paper, c tment of Corrections of- it i 1966-67. The two gangs have been Departm en are now mare parent that the prmgns Seamenc ek both in the prisons and Fico icuned Ot Devel Vocational din their webs of vislenceou the streets, eet te at Tracy, a prison which and. crime to. the Streets, in untelligence Familia, ike ail correctional “officers admit is vestigators believe the shots arethe Nuestra Familia. a rank controlled by NF. Gonzales w cil a Ss called from ean tracteees r a enstitution and transferred from Soledad prsion i Jaws. son in. ey onths BE0." « orrections ia hits in the tercept D ; : identify a past eit nen a structure shows that the ig oup is nttempted to isolate Flardcore . iu and Nurstra Familia, which meaps led by “nuestro general”, who /itiates in the maximu “ouy family’, is com tiséd must remain inside prison ity housing unit a mainly: of htéxican- Americans retain authority. : Security ' ; management control units, He Joe Rodriguez, unit Supervisor , estimated that less than ten Per for the tri-county parole offiec, } —_ cent of the prison's 2,400 inmate acknowledges that. “over the i Population is gang-affiliated, ast two years there has been g t edad was considered a NF efinite increase of activity by 3 stronghold, but no longer, “We this gang in theSalmasurea”’ * _— had a lot here for awhile but People on the street whose } ‘ they've been transferred to ives have been or May ba i ; DVI.” a spokesman sa . touched by Nuestra Familia How the word Spreads fromthe activities are frightened even ta Prisons to the streets amazes be asked questions about it even law enforcement personnel. “It's Communications from high- “Don'task.” qty “lines ‘ilsrni-n Date: 3/24/77 ot, man.” sis one Edition: 3f* ornoon Author: .ic« voeri-uez ranking NF members are carried Rodriguez said that in the tri. Editor: yet a through a variety of methods soon, area. his office supervise-, patina iE : such as visits, coded letters, 350 felons and slightly more than Tide: Wuestra Fa i hone galls er through parolees. 150 civil addicts who aré“nhot “Poms Gt toecacctre nside the Prisons, com- considered fetons but whic have nunication is just as simple. GANG see beck page Character: a or ; ' i1 we can 4o i PUEPOSE is to do Classification: . : tai n issua arelees : vommitted te the €f itornia : from involvement in criminality Subsitting Office: habilitation Center by the * Of any unproductive behavior. In La. Being Investigated } Re ts and who are treated as this context, we use a variety of — _-_—— coon s Methods from the degree of pant that total, Rodriguez says counseling and casework to that ertain parolees have been of Monitoring behavior and I identified as gang affiliates, but taking forceful action “he can't divulge their number. He necessary Forcefut action could otes that suspected gang _sf- be placing them in jail Custody fliates aren't treated “onch pending investigation and-or iitterently than routine pendisz further revocation ‘ac. lees.” Ben by the Ade Authority,” " parolees. Rodriguez sa° {ecm