The Mercury News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It has been nearly six years since federal prosecutors here revealed the first of two massive prosecutions aimed at moving incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood members out of the state prison system for the stated goal of keeping the public safe.
But two jury trials and three guilty pleas later, none of the nine Aryan Brotherhood members convicted of crimes that carry life have spent a single day in federal prison. All of them remain in state prison or county jail cells, where prosecutors alleged at the beginning of the case that they were able to easily obtain contraband phones and wreak havoc inside and outside of prison…