41.   The three white ex-cons arrested for the murder were reported to have links to racist prison gangs.

42.   They were therefore in a prison gang, or affiliated, and they were simply practicing what racist prison gangs preach.

43.   They are prison gangs, locked in a struggle for control of their cellblock homes, with criminal tentacles reaching outside jail walls.

44.   They typically investigate prison gangs and motorcycle clubs, follow organized crime figures and root out dangerous felons.

45.   Three of the attackers, detectives later learned, were members of the notorious Texas Syndicate prison gang.

46.   Unlike loud and loosely organized street gangs, prison gangs tend to be secretive and highly structured.

47.   A federal grand jury has indicted five inmates and eight other people who allegedly orchestrated killings and other crimes through the Nuestra Familia prison gang, a newspaper reported.

48.   Both belong to the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist prison gang.

49.   Both men were members of a white supremacist prison gang, the Confederate Knights of America, while jailed together.

50.   Defense lawyers began closing arguments Tuesday by denying there was a war between prison gangs at the time the guards are alleged to have set up the fights.