1.   At the same time, prison gangs have increasingly focused their recruiting efforts in county jails in Austin and other cities, rather than mostly in prisons.

2.   Before that, the only way to get into a prison gang had been to serve time in prison.

3.   Benitez was deeply entrenched in a prison gang named the New Mexican Mafia, court records show.

4.   Both are members of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and have won several successful lawsuits protesting various prison policies.

5.   Both King and Brewer had been incarcerated and both joined the Confederate Knights of America, a small racist prison gang.

6.   A key reason is the growing affiliation with teen-age street gangs that has allowed prison gangs to reach out in ever more violent and organized ways.

7.   A witness was with the Pistoleros prison gang.

8.   All three have prison records and authorities have said at least two have tattoos associated with white racist prison gangs.

9.   Brewer and King had been linked in the past to the Confederate Knights of America, a loosely defined prison gang that is aligned with the Klan.

10.   By most accounts, racism figured heavily in the formation of prison gangs in Texas two decades ago.