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American Me
''American Me'' is a 1992 American crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos also stars as the film's protagonist, Montoya Santana, loosely based on mob boss Rodolfo Cadena. Executive producers included record producer Lou Adler, screenwriter Mutrux, and Irwin Young. It depicts a fictionalized account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia in the California prison system from the 1950s into the 1980s. Plot The film depicts 30 years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles. The story opens up with the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, depicting a young Latino couple Esperanza and Pedro Santana being racially targeted by sailors. Pedro is taken out to the streets and beaten alongside other Latin-Americans having their clothing ripped and torn, while Esperanza is gang raped by the sailors. The story transitions to years later in 1959 and focuses on the Santana family's eldest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and activist. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in ''Miami Vice'' (1984–1989), ''American Me'' (1992) (which he also directed), William Adama in the re-imagined '' Battlestar Galactica'' (2004–2009), teacher Jaime Escalante in '' Stand and Deliver'' (1988) (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Detective Gaff in ''Blade Runner'' (1982) and its sequel '' Blade Runner 2049'' (2017) and the English dub voice of Mito in the 2005 Disney dub of ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind''. In 2018 through 2022, he has played the father of two members of an outlaw motorcycle club in the FX series ''Mayans MC''. For his work in ''Miami Vice'', Olmos won the 1985 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. For his performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is the penal law enforcement agency of the government of California responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems. Its headquarters are in Sacramento. Staff size CDCR is the 3rd largest law enforcement agency in the United States behind the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) which is an arm of Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), and the New York City Police Department, which employ approximately 66,000 federal officers and 42,000 police officers respectively. CDCR correctional officers are sworn law enforcement officers with peace officer powers. As of 2013, CDCR employed approximately 24,000 peace officers (state correctional officers), 1,800 state parole agents, and 150 criminal investigators. Kathleen Allison was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom as Secretary for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) on October 1, 2020. History In 1851, Cali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Close
Eric Randolph Close (born May 24, 1967) is an American actor, best known for his roles in television series, particularly as FBI agent Martin Fitzgerald in the CBS mystery drama ''Without a Trace'' (2002–2009) and Teddy Conrad in the ABC musical drama ''Nashville'' (2012–2017). Early life Close was born in Staten Island, New York. Close's father is an orthopedic surgeon. Close is the eldest of three brothers. His family moved to Indiana, then to Michigan, and finally settled in San Diego when Close was seven years old. Close was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and graduated with a B.A. in communications from the University of Southern California in 1989. Career Close was interested in acting from an early age and had some stage experience in school, but did not decide to pursue an acting career until after college. His first role was in a theater production ''Rat Songs'' in L.A., after which he was offered parts in the crime drama ''American Me'' (1992) and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Vargas
Jacob Vargas (born August 18, 1971) is a Mexican-American actor and performer. Early life Vargas was born in Michoacán, Mexico, and raised in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California. He was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family. He attended high school at San Fernando High School in San Fernando, California. Career Vargas has been a working actor for over thirty years. In 1992, Vargas appeared in ''American Me''. In 1995, Vargas won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' ''Mi Vida Loca'', and Gregory Nava's ''My Family''. In 1995, Vargas would appear in ''Get Shorty''. In 1997, Vargas appeared in ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion''. In 1999, Vargas became the voice of Max Steel. In 2000, Vargas played Benicio del Toro's partner Manolo in director Steven Soderbergh's drug trafficking pic ''Traffic'', which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award and another ALMA Award. The same year he also played the Joker from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latino (demonym)
The masculine term ''Latino'' (), along with its feminine inflection, form ''Latina'', is a noun and adjective, often used in American English, English, Spanish language in the United States, Spanish, and Portuguese language, Portuguese, that most commonly refers to United States inhabitants who have cultural ties to Latin America. Within the Latino community itself in the United States, there is some variation in how the term is defined or used. Various governmental agencies, especially the U.S. Census Bureau, have specific definitions of ''Latino'' which may or may not agree with community usage. These agencies also employ the term ''Hispanic'', which includes Spaniards, whereas ''Latino'' often does not. Conversely, ''Latino'' can include Brazilians and Haitians, and may include Spaniards and sometimes even some European Romance-speaking world, romanophones such as Portuguese people, Portuguese (a usage sometimes found in bilingual subgroups within the U.S., borrowing from how ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexicans
Mexicans ( es, mexicanos) are the citizens of the United Mexican States. The most spoken language by Mexicans is Spanish language, Spanish, but some may also speak languages from 68 different Languages of Mexico, Indigenous linguistic groups and other languages brought to Mexico by recent immigration or learned by Mexican expats residing in other countries. In 2015, 21.5% of Mexico's population Indigenous peoples of Mexico, self-identified as being Indigenous. There are about 12 million Mexican nationals residing outside Mexico, with about 11.7 million living in the United States. The larger Mexican diaspora can also include individuals that trace ancestry to Mexico and self-concept, self-identify as Mexican yet are not necessarily Mexican by citizenship, culture or language. The United States has the largest Mexican population after Mexico in the world at 37,186,361 (2019). The modern nation of Mexico achieved independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, after a decade long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe "Pegleg" Morgan
Joseph Morgan (born Joseph Međugorac; April 10, 1929 – November 8, 1993) was the first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia. He received the nickname "Pegleg" by authorities because of his prosthetic leg. Early life The youngest of four siblings, Morgan was born on April 10, 1929 in San Pedro, California to Croatian immigrants Clara (née Radišić from Imotski) and Grgo Međugorac, a truck driver who was an ethnic Croat from Ljubuski. Shortly after his birth his father naturalized as a U.S. citizen, anglicizing the family name to Morgan due to anti-immigrant and anti-Slavic sentiment at the time (in 1929, the same year Morgan was born, the U.S. passed immigration laws limiting immigration from the Balkans. It’s believed that more than half of the Croatian population in the U.S. at the time was deported from the nation). Morgan grew up in a primarily Mexican and Croatian neighborhood in San Pedro. Later, he was raised by his mother in a Mexican neighborhood in Boyle H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panchito Gomez
Panchito is a diminutive of the name Pancho, which in turn is a diminutive of the name Francisco. It may refer to: *Panchito Alba, stage name of Filipino actor Alfonso Tagle Sr. *Panchito Pistoles, Disney cartoon character *Francisco Velázquez Francisco Cecílio Velázquez (born 10 January 1975), nicknamed "Panchito", is a retired Argentine roller hockey player. As a forward, he is remembered as one of the greatest roller hockey players, being often compared to his idol António Livra ..., former Argentine roller hockey player *A Spanish profane term for a Mestizo or an indigenous Central or South American {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuestra Familia
Nuestra Familia (Spanish for ''"our family"'') is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California. While members of the Norteños gang are considered to be foot soldiers of Nuestra Familia, being a member of Nuestra Familia itself does not signify association as a Norteño. Some law enforcement agents speculate that the Nuestra Familia gang, which operates in and out of prisons, influences much of the criminal activity of thousands of Norteño gang members in California. The gang's main sources of income are distributing cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine within prison systems as well as in the community and extorting drug distributors on the streets. History Origins Nuestra Familia was organized at Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California in 1965. In the late 1960s, Mexican-American inmates of the California state prison system began to separate into two rival groups, Nuestra Familia and the 1957-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drive-by Shooting
A drive-by shooting is a type of assault that usually involves the perpetrator(s) firing a weapon from within a motor vehicle and then fleeing. Drive-by shootings allow the perpetrator(s) to quickly strike their target and flee the scene before law enforcement is able to respond. A drive-by shooting's prerequisites include access to a vehicle and a gun. The protection, anonymity, sense of power, and ease of escape provided by the get away vehicle lead some motorists to feel safe expressing their hostility toward others. Historical conception The invention of the drive-by shooting is attributed to Nestor Makhno, commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century. He combined horse and carriage with a machine gun in order to quickly assault targets then flee before they could properly react. Motor vehicles offer similar concealment for transport of weapons to crime scenes in situations like the 2015 San Bernardino attack, and can simu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Eme
The Mexican Mafia (Spanish: ''Mafia Mexicana''), also known as ''La eMe'' (Spanish for "the M"), is a Mexican American criminal organization in the United States. Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia did not originate in Mexico, and is entirely a U.S. criminal prison organization. Law enforcement officials report that the Mexican Mafia is the deadliest and most powerful gang within the California prison system.Harris, D. (2004). ''Gangland: The growing gang epidemic in America's cities''. Oakland, TN: Holy Fire Publishing, . Government officials state that there are currently 400–500 official members of the Mexican Mafia with thousands of hitmen and associates within prison and an estimate of more than 50,000 foot soldiers who also carry out its illegal activities on the streets in the hopes of becoming full members. The Mexican Mafia appears to have immense reach and influence into every Hispanic street gang in Southern California, including the notoriously brutal MS-13 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folsom State Prison
Folsom State Prison (FSP) is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, U.S., approximately northeast of the state capital of Sacramento. It is one of 34 adult institutions operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state's second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons. It has been the execution site of 93 condemned prisoners. Musician Johnny Cash put on two live performances at the prison on January 13, 1968. These were recorded and released as a live album titled ''At Folsom Prison''. He had written and recorded the song "Folsom Prison Blues" more than a decade earlier. Facilities Both FSP and California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC) share the mailing address: Represa, CA 95671. ''Represa'' (translated as "dam" from the Spanish language) is the name given in 1892 to the State Prison post office b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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