The ADL estimates that Aryan Circle commands a membership of some 1,400 people in federal prisons, state prisons and in the free world. Although the bulk of the gang is in Texas, its reach ...

Between 2010 and 2021, federal authorities say, Blankenship had “put in work” for the Aryan Circle, one of the country’s most notorious neo-Nazi prison gangs. Now, he’s headed to a federal ...

The gang was ranked a Tier 1 organization since 2010. The report also upgraded the threat ranking of the Aryan Circle gang from Tier 3 to Tier 2 because of documented association with Mexican cartels.