In Folsom
State Prison. Along with the Crips and the Bloods, 415
KUMI Nation members have recently provided recruitment pools
for the Black Guerilla Family (BGF), a gang with similarly
large numbers in the Bay area and Northern California. In
the Monterey County Jail, brief alliances have been reported
among the Bloods, Crips, and KUMI 415 during period leading
up to Stanley Tookie Williams' execution.
KUMI 415 have been reported to use prison guards to authorize
violence against fellow inmates, such as the case in August
of 2003 when former correctional officer Leon Holston was
charged with aiding and abetting, battery with serious bodily
injury, filing a false report by a peace officer and unlawful
communication with a prisoner (Associated Press Newswires
9 Sep 2004).
KUMI is the Swahili word for the number 10, and the sum of
415 is 10. 415 also refers to San Francisco's area code.
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