He was arrested three years later in Houston for involvement in a robbery and had been in jail for 7 years at the time this photo was taken. He came to Houston, Texas illegally in the same year with two friends and started working as a roofer for a construction company. Flores, a native of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, became a member of Mara Salvatrucha-13, or MS-13, the violent Central American street gang, when he was 14 years. This process is one of the most important for people sentenced because it determines if they will be moved to a rough "gladiator farm" or a minnimum security prison, and how far away from their familie (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Show More Show Less 35 of47ĭaniel Flores, 24 years, shows off his tattoos from a visiting cell in the Robertson Unit maximum security prison on Januin Abilene, Texas. An intake and classification prison for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, all prisoners sentenced in Texas must be processed here and evaluated before receiving an assignment to another prison. Newly sentenced prisoners are checked for gang tattoos at the Holiday Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori via Getty Images Show More Show Less HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images Show More Show Less 32 of47Ī group of Galveston 'Bandidos', or Texan boys who are inspired by the California-based Black Angels gang, sitting on their motorcycles. Members say they joined the gang to gain respect among their peers and to protect themselves against other gangs, they consider the group a part of their family. Some 650 known gang, the majority of hispanic-origin, operate in El Paso, according to the Onramp Youth Foundation, an organization that provides council to youths in trouble. The gang was known also for being a "clean gang" not involved in drug trafficking or part of older gangs that have become involved in large organize crime schemes. The gang, an offshoot of "Los Juaritos" gang from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, grew into one of the most notorious gang in the city with some 60 active members. In this photo released 19 April, 2006, members of the Pico Norte 19th Street gang pose flashing their hand signs and tattoos in El Paso, Texas. HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images Show More Show Less In this photo released 19 April, 2006, members of the Pico Norte 19th Street gang pose flashing their hand signs in El Paso, Texas. Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images Show More Show Less 29 of47 A print from the Pictorial History of the Wild West, by James D Horan and Paul Sann, Spring Books, London, 1954. He was shot in an ambush at Round Rock, Texas on Jwhile scouting the area before a planned bank robbery and died from his wounds the following day. He led a gang that held up a Union Pacific train at Big Springs, Nebraska, on 18th September 1877, stealing $60,000. Bass is alleged to be the seated figure in the center. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images) Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images Show More Show LessĪ disputed photograph of the train robber and outlaw Sam Bass, c1877-1878 (1954). Kilpatrick was released from prison in 1911 but was shot and killed the following year while robbing a train near Sanderson, Texas. Kid Curry, the most notorious member of the gang in terms of the number of people he killed, was shot and killed in a gunfight with lawmen in Colorado in 1904. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid emigrated to South America (they are said to have been killed by Bolivian police after a robbery in 1908), Carver was killed in a shootout with lawmen, and Kilpatrick was captured in Tennessee and sentenced to 20 years in jail. The gang operated out of the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Wyoming, a notorious haunt of outlaw groups, between 18 robbing trains and banks across the West. The Wild Bunch, American outlaw gang, 1901 Left to right, standing, William Carver (News Carver), Harvey Logan (Kid Curry) sitting, Harry Longabaugh (Sundance Kid), Ben Kilpatrick (The Tall Texan), Robert LeRoy Parker (Butch Cassidy). Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images Show More Show Less 26 of47 Click through to see a visual timeline of organized crime in Texas.