I never said that Crips answer to 415s, I said they have to answer to BGF, which just happens to be predominantly 415..
By Melvin Thomas for Street Gangs Magazine
June 1, 2006
Sometime ago I did gang bang and I was from a gang in Watts called the Bounty Hunters from the Nickerson Gardens. This message goes to all the gang members and wanna bes, plus the one’s who are feeling the pressures from other gang members to join.
They call me Alligator from the Nickerson Gardens Bounty Hunters a Blood gang, and I am in prison for 25 years to life. I am 45 years of age and I want all of you out there to know that my homeboys or homegirls never sent me a dime anytime that I got lockup.
If you are running the street, do you know how the prison gangs will treat you when you come to prison and do you realy want to experience that?. First let me share with you the names of the prison Bloods and Crip gangs. For the Bloods you got the U.B.N. (United Blood Nation) and Blood lines, and they call themselves the police for the Bloods, but yet all they do is hurt and kill Bloods, and U.B. N. and B.L. try to kill one another for the right to be the police for the Bloods.
And the prison police (correctional officers) will at times attempt to kill us inmates, beat us with clubs, and other assaults. These prison gangs work with the COs, and the gangs control the drugs in the prison.
The Uncut bloods (U.C. bloods) which are Bloods who are just from their street gang on the street and they don’t want to be part of any prison gangs. The Crips in prison are known as the Blue Notes and C.C.O.’s and these prison gang operate in the same way that the blood prison gangs do. The uncuts fight and will kill to stay uncut or not part of the prison gang.
Being from a gang will eventually have you dealing with these prison gangs when you get locked up, therefore being from a gang is not cool, I advise that you stay in school and focus to make something of yourself. That is the coolest thing to do because gang members are not cool. They will snitch on you, rape you, kill you, and they can’t stand alone and have no indivuduality and they need help because they are scared.
Parents, please feel free to contact me, because I know that I can help you make a difference in you child's life, and let’s work together to keep your child from being killed or becoming a killer, and I know with my story of living the life of a gang member will help your child to learn how to do the right thing like staying in school, and finding out their personal talent and becoming great at it. I can help you learn how to really talk to your child without becoming upset with them.
Melvin is currently incarcerated. You can contact him at the following location:
Melvin Thomas K-03006
C.S.A.T.F. Delta 2 Cell 241L
PO BOX 5246
Corcoran, Calfornia 93212-5246.