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Brief History and Description

Nuestra Familia (Our Family) was organized in the Soledad, California Correctional Training Facility in 1968. Inmates were tired of the abuse and victimization at the hand of the Mexican Mafia. Most of the original members of the NF were from Northern California and Central California. As the NF and Mexican Mafia engaged in a bitter prison war, new prisoners from Northern California were recruited into the NF while Southern California inmates joined the Mexican Mafia. By the late 1970s, after numerous prison riots and murders, an official dividing point emerged between the gangs in Delano, California. Footsoldiers of the gang living outside of the prison are typically called Norteños (Northerners in Spanish). Soledad is a city in Monterey County, California, United States. ... The Mexican Mafia (MM) or La eMe (eMe) is a Mexican-American criminal prison gang in the United States. ... Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. ... Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California: The state is sometimes described as being in three main sections: Northern California (the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Valley northward), Southern California (south of the Tehachapis), and Central California (the... The Norteños (Spanish: for Northerners), affiliated with Nuestra Familia (Our Family), are a coalition of partially Latino gangs in Northern California. ...

Allies

• Nortenos
• Black Geurilla Family
• Mara Salvatrucha
• Crips

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Primary Enemies

• Mexican Mafia
• Surenos
• Texas Syndicate
• kkk
• Maravilla
• Fresno Bulldog Nation
• Nazi Lowriders

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External links

• "Nuestra Familia" (El Andar, winter 2003)
• "Nuestra Familia, Our Family," the documentary Center for Investigative Reporting, 2006
• Prison Gangs

See also

• Gangs