WARNING!! This is very graphic!! Titicut Follies is a black and white 1967 documentary film by United States filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of inmates / patients at Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The title is taken from a talent show put on by the hospital’s inmates. (The talent show was named after the Wampanoag word for the nearby Taunton River.) In 1967 the film won awards in Germany and Italy. It was one of a number of films made by Wiseman that examined social institutions: hospital, police, school, etc., in the United States.

The Aryan Brotherhood were formed in 1967, in California’s San Quentin State Prison, grown from the Blue Bird Gang of the 1950s and 1960s.

Find out what life is like for the 18th Street Gang of El Salvador behind bars.

He is a member of Eighteen – one of El Salvador’s largest street gangs. He waves the fully loaded machine gun around the room, giggling excitedly like a child, as he tries to work out where the safety catch is. El Salvador’s gangs are not home grown – in culture and style they ape the Latino street gangs of downtown Los Angeles in the US.

The Heart Broken in half. A great compilation of clips from an old 80s movie documenting the Latin Kings. Learn more at http://www.collectiveeye.org.