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A kingpin of Texas organized crime will spend the rest of his life behind bars in a state prison, where authorities say he will finally lose his voice in the brutal Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. James Byrd, 45, was already in federal prison. But that did little to stem his role in the Brotherhood, a prison gang that operates out of federal penitentiaries. Following a years long joint initiative by federal and state agencies, Byrd will live the rest of his days almost entirely shut off from the outside world. "He will be in a box for 23 hours a day," said Tarrant County criminal prosecutor Allenna Bangs, who worked Byrd's case. "That will be 50 very hard years." Prosecutors' goal, Bangs said, was ...
An Aryan Brotherhood Kingpin from Texas Is Getting Life in Solitary Confinement