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in the United States of America some of the world's most dangerous and notorious
prisoners are locked behind bars he was incredibly strong to the point where prison guards started
calling him the Hulk Tyler Davis Bingham is one of them TD was probably the most
dangerous man I've ever known he was feared by inmates he was an imposing figure Bingham
started out as a petty criminal spending time in Youth Correctional Facilities almost like an Alcatraz
system for kids what you learn is you got to fight and you got to be violent in order to survive he was a Fearless
fighter and his physical prowess made him a natural gang leader he stabs a guy multiple times I
think over a dozen times TD never allowed anyone to live when he engaged in an individual it was
to the death even when moved to a Maximum Security Prison bingum remain a deadly
threat what makes him so dangerous was the fact that he could literally just write a couple letters down on a piece
of paper and have somebody killed thousands of miles away that level of power just doesn't exist in
society [Music] [Music] San Quinton Rehabilitation Center is the oldest prison in
California it has a reputation as being a really violent place where you know you kind of
have to fight for your life it was a dangerous place for anybody that had to serve time there or work
there you have not only the smell of flatulence and urine but also testosterone and
sweat in some instances depending blood and um [Music] decay all of the major gangs and gang
leaders and all the problem inmates went to San Quenton it was maybe the most violent
prison in California there was some blind spots in the prison where Tower officers with
guns could not see and that's where some of the stabbings and some of the meetings would
occur this maximum security Correctional Facility has the largest death row in the US and houses nearly 4,000
inmates Tyler Davis Bingham AKA The Hulk was one of [Music] them TD is a man's man and probably the most violent
individual I've ever met in my life he started excelling in this prison gang structure and within just a few short
years basically became a leader of the ab the Aran Brotherhood they were white supremacist group they wanted to protect
the white inmates from the other gangs whether they were Black Or Hispanic or whatever Bingham committed his first
crime as a child and throughout his teens was in and out of juvenile detention centers it was literally a situation
where kids would would just kind of fight it out and um you know guards either were repressive and violent
towards them or just kind of let the violence happen between the kids bingham's criminal career escalated and
he ended up in an adult prison where he ruled with his fists this guy's won every single fight he's ever fought in
his life Bingham he he took his weightlifting seriously he was a big sly guy they called him the
[Music] Hulk if I were to create the image of a prototypical Aryan Brotherhood gang
member it would be T [Music] Bingham born in Sacramento California Tyler Davis Bingham grew up with his
parents an older brother he started getting into trouble with the law from an early
age his first arrest was when he was 9 years old for petty theft and by 14 he was in the California Youth Authority
which is basically like a prison hellhole for kids what got TD Bingham sent to the
California Youth Authority as a teenager was kind of a Romeo and Juliet story when he was 14 he fell in love
with a girl who was you know from his area in California and her mother didn't approve
she didn't like TD Bingham and her daughter was like head over heels in love with him so they decide hey we're
going to run away to Texas in a l what they did was they stole a car and they drove all night long into the next
morning and they you know fell asleep in each other's arms in the backseat of the
car that night and when they woke up there was a sheriff's deputy right there you know
knocking on their window trying to figure out what the hell they were doing there and they tried to play it off and
say oh hey we're from this area you know we're just sleeping overnight but the cop didn't believe him and you know he
comes to find out hey this is a stolen car out of California and takes TD Bingham into custody and he ultimately
ends up going to the California Youth Authority [Music] the California Youth Authority known as
cya was designed as a state level Detention Facility for people under the age of
18 it was the largest youth prison system in the country at one time they had 10,000 what we called Wards not
inmates they called them CU they were Wards of the Court juveniles who enter a correctional facility at a very young
age are already placed at risk it's kind of the chicken the egg was the risk prior to them being arrested or is the
juvenile correctional facility going to be the risk factor or is it both if the juvenile correctional facility is
equipped to handle the youth rehabilitate the youth and put the youth on a right track it may be the best
thing ever this however was not the case for Tyler Davis Bingham at cya the reports out of the California
Youth Authority are just horrifying this was not just a punitive environment but
it was B basically a prison hellhole I mean the the CIA system was worse than a lot of adult prisons in
California I got hired by the courts to go in and do an assessment on gang violence so I walked and talked in 11
institutions came back wrote a report said the place is a mess kids were being held in like Dark
Cells as a form of punishment you know no windows and lights get turned out kids were getting tortured in there kids
were living in completely unsanitary environments guards would throw gas canisters into their cells as a
punishment and just let them sit there in it for a while you know urine and feces all over the place chronic under
Staffing sometime you'd have one guard looking after 60 or 70 kids and you know these kids just ran a muck and and
assaulted each other stabbed each other the other risk factor with juvenile's going to Correctional Facilities is peer
influence so if a juvenile goes to a correctional facilities and they are surrounded by other juveniles who tend
to be maladaptive who tend to engage in criminal activity lying cheating stealing and violence that might
actually make the juvenile worse so to speak because now the juvenile is wanting to impress his peers or her
peers the juvenile wants to up the anti the juvenile starts to realize that in this circle of friends this is the way
you are supposed to behave and so that can certainly be a risk factor for the juvenile to enter Correctional
Facilities later on in life the California Youth Authority was a training ground and a breeding ground
for the state prison system this is where young gang members hone their skills you know it was almost like an
Alcatraz system for kids you know it's hard to understand the psychological impact that that has
and also you know ultimately what you learn is you got to fight and you got to be violent in order to survive TD
Bingham was released from the C at around the age of 19 his time there would have made a huge impact on his
life I think like it did for a lot of people the C turned TD Bingham into basically a troubled kid into a
full-fledged gangster they start to view entering Correctional Facilities as something
normal as part of their track to becoming an adult and that's when it becomes dangerous because that means
that in carceration is completely normalized in the juvenile's brain and so they start to think that going back
to prison and recidivating and reoffending is just a normal part of life for the next few years was in and
out of prison you have multiple Escape attempts now an adult TD Bingham had chosen his criminal career path and he
had upped the ante and then in his early 20s he robbed a liquor store what he did there was he
basically you know know held the clerk at gunpoint walked the clerk into a bathroom whacked him on the head with a
pistol and then when he was arrested for that his excuse was well hey I needed money so I took it TD Bingham pleaded
guilty to robbery of the first degree and assault with a deadly weapon he was initially sent to San Quinton prison but
in 1973 moved to old fome old fome state prison is one of the oldest prisons in California it's kind of easily
recognizable because it has this iconic guard Tower okay old fome you know was built
in the 1850s it looks like something out of the movies five tiers in each soul block
Gunners on the rail Gunners and gun Towers worst of the worst for years back in the' 7s 80s and even in
the '90s there were kind of constant stabbing I mean certain prisons were War zones Infamous fome inmates included
Sunny Barger a founding member of the Hell's Angels and Charles Jackson AKA the East Bay Slayer convicted of killing
at least seven women and a man it was here in fulam that TD Bingham had his first contact with prison gangs
T Bingham is a guy who who spent most of his life in prison including during his
childhood who's basically a product of the system originally prison gangs were essentially like a Loosely formed group
of guys that would sort of band together for protection typically most prison gangs
go by ethnicity you have Mexican gangs you have black gangs you have white supremacist
gangs being part of a gang in prison is pretty common and a lot of these inmates
may not have been gang members on the outside but when you come into prison it's for your own protection and
survival if a race riot starts or an intergang brawl starts you're going to have to choose a side and let's say
you're a white inmate and the whites and the blacks are fighting on the yard or the whites and the Mexicans are fighting
on the yard if you don't get involved and support the whites when it's over they're going to hit you and there was
an obvious choice of prison gang for TD Bingham the Aryan Brotherhood is a California originated prison gang that
started in the 60s and they basically formed as a defensive they were kind of outnumbered by the Hispanics and blacks
so they wanted to form a group of white inmates to defend themselves the Aryan Brotherhood was pretty well
established by the time TD Bingham found himself in prison he immediately joins up with the Aryan Brotherhood and
becomes kind of this you know uh like almost heroic figure within the gang right
away TD Ming's reputation during those years was somebody who had the strength of like four or five dudes who if you
were next to him and you were guys were fighting people together you weren't going to
lose he presented a pretty imposing figure within fulam the prison gang was evolving into a much bigger
organization they kind of got into from the whole white supremacist ideology and
more into drug dealing and being in business uh they have a very strong reputation of being assaultive and in
killing people and things like that and being a very violent gang with his intimidating presence and Authority TD
Bingham fitted right in with the gang he started excelling in this prison gang structure and within just a few short
years basically became a leader of the ab and become one of the most powerful gangsters in American
history in the mid-70s TD Bingham was locked up at Old fome prison in California
he had joined a white supremacist gang the Aryan Brotherhood and quickly Rose to the ranks to become one of its
leaders when I got to Old fulam I was the youngest man to be at Old fulam pretty much everybody else had
gray hair and they put me in the hole there my name is Michael Thompson and I'm a
former member of the Aran Brotherhood I was introduced to the big boys you had all the major gangs you had
the Aran Brotherhood the Mexican Mafia the Texas Syndicate the black gorilla family the Black Panthers you had
Charlie Manson these were veteran convicts and uh for the most part skilled Warriors often times the cost of joining
a gang might even involve egregious type of activities such as having to prostitute yourselves having to smuggle
drugs having to carry out assaults that you don't want to carry out even murders
and so in order to have this protection which is basically a false sense of protection in a lot of ways you have to
sometimes compromise your own values and possibly your own freedom in order to engage in criminal activity that may not
benefit you directly but will benefit the gang one prison gang the Black Panthers soon approached Young new
prisoner Michael Yogi approached me on the yard as the head of the Black Panthers uh with the idea of recruiting
me he gave me a Spiel that included The Communist Manifesto and the pig establishment and
all things that I really did not have the intellectual capacity to comprehend I couldn't read or write
and um I had no understanding of politics in this country but the one thing I did know was that I was
American and so that I declined and my decline basically for that reason I told him um I'm not really
smart enough to understand everything that you're telling me what I do know is that I'm
American and um if I understand you correctly you're a communist and so the answer is no and he said
well he said you're either with us or against us and I said well I reckon I'm against
you then declining an invitation to join a gang was insulting it meant that Thompson had to fight just to stay alive
and as I walked through the gate of the yard four blacks rushed me with knives took me to the ground and they started
stabbing me and they were stabbing me high they weren't hitting anything vital really and in a couple of instances I
felt the knives go all the way through me and [ __ ] the asphalt underneath me but it seemed almost as quickly as
they had jumped on me they jumped off and the second they jumped off shots were fired and I could feel
the asphalt penetrating my body from the shots as well as some of the shrapnel but I was determined to walk off the
yard so when the guards came out with their gy and were going to roll me over onto
it I refused to let him do that and I told him I'm going to walk off this yard took me a minute to get up and I
eventually got up and I shuffled off the yard the same way I shuffled on and the injuries were such that once
we got past the doors I said okay put me on the gurnie but it was a matter of Pride and that I walk off that
yard and it had an enormous impact on those individuals who had attempted to kill me one they had failed and two I'd
gotten up under my own Steam and walked off the yard and that did not bode well for them
another gang member was impressed by his courage and Michael was asked to join a
different gang you know the next person to a approached me was TD Bingham he came up
and uh extended his hand and we shook hands and he told me that uh he liked the way I handled myself he asked me
well what do you think would you like to join up with us and I told him TD I said for right
now I'm just going to do my own thing he spit and then he laughed he says but we
got your back and I said that isn't necessary I I can fight my own fights and um he laughed again and I
like the hell out of TD TD is a man's man and um probably the most violent individual I've ever met in my
life I didn't know a thing about the Aran Brotherhood back then you know my initial impression was like so many
people that uh they were Nazis or they were racists and I certainly knew that they were dope FS cuz they all had the
phys iCal characteristics of that track marks on their arms and in truth I wasn't
impressed if you're targeted by the Aran Brotherhood you you know if they can get
to you they're going to kill you they're a very dangerous gang and not a gang to
be taken lightly eventually Michael Thompson gave in and accepted TD's offer they actually lived pretty good in
prison they had everything they wanted they had drugs they had commodities they had clothes back then and um that
resonated with me so what he was really telling me was that they controlled their
environment and that appealed to me it was 1977 and by now the Aryan Brotherhood was a powerful structure in
the California prison system the Aran Brotherhood gets involved in anything that they think will be profitable for
them in prison violence is the number one currency and gangs use it extensively it is via the mechanism of
violence that the gangs control so violence is the number one currency it was not easy to join the
Aryan Brotherhood in fulam TD Bingham held the keys getting to be a member you had to
be be sponsored by a member and recommended by that [Music] member you had to do work for them and
usually that work meant assaulting somebody at their [Music] behest The Gangs only want people that
they think will help them uh produce that fear and intimidation at that time TD was probably the most
influential member of the Aryan Brotherhood and the reason he was because he had established himself his
physical prowess was unparalleled extremely wellb built extremely strong and extremely skilled
in combat there's this sort of cliche line of Blood In Blood Out which basically
means that you have to kill somebody or come pretty damn close to join the ab and in order to get out you have to
die each time you go out to the yard you knew you were going to fight so say for
instance the black Rea family would go down to one end of the yard and the Aran Brotherhood and Mexico Mafia would go to
the other end of the yard and at a pre-agreed upon signal they would merge to the center of
the yard and begin combat and that happened every time we went to the yard by 1978 Michael Thompson had proved
himself to the Aryan Brotherhood and joined TD Bingham on the battlefield it was a blood bath so much
so that they had to bring the fir truck out in the yard to wash the blood away TD ended up killing a man that
day TD never allowed anyone to live when he engaged an individual it was to the death and his intent engaging that
individual was to kill him he did so efficiently effectively and swiftly Tyler Davis Bingham was one of
the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood a white supremacist gang that controlled many of the West Coast prisons Michael
Thompson was bingham's right-hand man TD bingham's role with the Aran Brotherhood
at that time it was one man one vote and you did have those individuals who were
more influential than others and TD was one of those individuals together Bingham and
Thompson regularly got involved in bloody and fatal battles with gang rivals in the prison
yard that upset the administration considerably because so many people have been injured and killed
California prisons back then were extremely dangerous I don't think that there was a
prison in the United States a prison system in the United States that was more dangerous people would get stabbed and
killed and The Yards would get briefly shut down they'd bring the victim out in a gurnie and then they just reactivate
things just like you know business as usual TD and I were kicked out of fome was because of the
violence in 1979 TD Bingham and Michael Thompson were transferred to San Quenton
State Prison in California San Quenton was sort of Ground Zero for a lot of violence
between prison gangs all of the major gangs and gang leaders and all of the problem inmates went to San
qu it was a dangerous place for for anybody that had to serve time there or work there San Quinton back in the 70s
was falling apart San Quinton cells were smaller I could take one elbow and put it on the wall and outstretch my other
arm and I could touch wall the wall there was some blind spots in the prison where Tower officers with guns
could not see and that's where some of the stabbings and some of the meetings would
occur but gang violence continued for the Aryan Brotherhood and business was booming they controlled all fome in San
Quenton so you had transient populations there from 3,000 to 5,000 depending on the time a lot of overcrowding it's like
a small City they want to control whatever they can in the in the institution um and and they do that by
by fear and intimidation well urine brotherhood's primary racket if you will was violence
violence For Hire it hired out to um other organizations but it was also again used
again his currency towards controlling the resources in prison if you borrow from them and you
don't pay it back they'll kill you if you buy drugs from them and don't pay them
they'll kill you any legitimate or illegitimate business that they can sink their teeth
into they're going to do because first and foremost the Aryan Brotherhood is a money-making organization essentially my
observation of the Aran Brotherhood is their rivals or anybody that interferes with the rackets that they're
controlling they're controlling the drugs they're controlling the pro stitution they're controlling the lone
sharking they're controlling everything the product that they're moving into the prison paying off the
guards to do that whilst TD Bingham ramped up the Aryan Brotherhood operations it caused
tension between rival prison gangs TD and I weren't at San Quenton more than a week and we got into it with
the Mexican mafia they had stabbed an associate of the ab right after TD and I got there
next time we went out to the yard TD and I we didn't have any knives but we beat
the hell out of them but this time an armed guard in the prison gun Tower intervened the Gunner that Tower was
only 12 ft off the ground so if he leaned over the rail he was probably 8 ft away from us he was shooting TD and I
in the back while he was loading he was that damn good TD and I both took five rounds
in the back and the only reason we stopped what we were doing is that the the damn lead from the shotgun got so
hot that it was unbearable doctor said the only reason that it didn't kill us is that didn't
puncture along with the heart was because TD and I both had so much muscle on our
backs events like that usually lead to Warfare but the Mexican Mafia and the ab were
allies so you don't really want to go to Warfare because what that Warfare does is it intrudes upon business it's not
because you like each other it's because you're in business together and you're making a lot of money and you don't want
to stop that money is green and really there's no color when it comes to money so you
often find that these racially motivated gangs are willing to put all of that aside in order to get their needs met
and usually those needs are Financial the Aryan Brotherhood continued to grow and despite all all the gangs activities
and crimes TD Bingham managed to get paroled in 1981 Tyler Bingham was briefly paroled
and it seems like he attempted to go straight and start a new life with a family he fell in love and married this
woman and basically they moved their family out to Texas and he became an oil rig guy while he was paroled he was
still a full-fledged Aran brother Ood member it was harder to communicate with prisoners during those days and you also
have to remember just how much clout that he had within the ab I think this is a guy who could pretty much do
whatever the hell he wanted TD Bingham formerly adopted two of his partner's children they also had a third one
together but family life only lasted for 4 years that time period ended because he
went into a bank with a revolver and robbed a bank at gunpoint and stuck the revolver underneath the door and pointed
it right at the clerk and then he made off with $112,000 and was arrested a day or two later and sentence to 25 years in
federal prison that's not surprising considering that you know he started engaging in
criminal activity at the age of nine and so he has a lifelong history of this pattern it's really the only thing he
knows how to do convicted for bank robbery a federal crime 38-year-old TD Bingham was sent to Lok federal prison
in California the Aryan Brotherhood was already present there and welcomed TD Bingham with open arms when certain
members of the Aran Brotherhood from California got convicted of federal crimes they took the gang to the federal
prisons as the Aran Brotherhood in California started to evolve they needed better
organization so they decided they were going to have maybe three leaders be the commission that would make decisions
serious decisions who gets into the ab who gets hit TD Bingham was ready to take back the
leadership he was basically made a commissioner in the federal system instantaneously pretty much the same
same time that he put his foot down in the first prison yard TD's role on the commission was essentially if TD says
that this needs to happen pretty much the commission votes that way but he wouldn't just send orders he made sure
to prove he was still a Hands-On gang boss when T got to Lum par he learned that there was an individual there that
was marked for hit and he didn't hesitate the Fell's name was Gary evilsizer so he goes up to Gary
evilsizer with a prison m shank and stabs him he stabs a guy multiple times I think over a dozen times attempting to
kill him but evilsizer somehow survives he made no effort to get away with it TD
Bingham would be moved to a maximum security facility but nothing would stop this gang Leader's reign of
terror the Bureau of Prisons thought that maybe they'd solved the problem by doing this and that these guys weren't
going to to find a way to you know get around those restrictions and kill more people but of course they were
wrong TD Bingham one of the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood was back in prison and
he immediately asserted his power within 1 month of going to federal prison he stabs somebody gets arrested for
attempted murder gets another 12 years tacked onto his prison sentence on top of the 25 he's already doing because of
that stabbing he's shipped off to uh more restrictive housing TD Bingham was quickly sent far away from California to
the United States Penitentiary Marion in Illinois USP Marion was the first sort of supermax prison after Alcatraz kind
of collapsed and couldn't really be used as a prison anymore and so for many years it was kind of seen as the go-to
place to house the most dangerous or otherwise violent you know offenders in the uh federal prison system rather than
cut TD Bingham off from any contact with the Aryan Brotherhood he is was locked up with another Power leader of the
white supremacist gang Barry Mills I think T and Mills were already well acquainted and they're already
friends and they already obviously were cohorts at that point so you know here's
two Aran Brotherhood Commissioners in the same place they were the most influential
members of the ab commission they were both housed in Maran Illinois and um responsible for the
death of a lot of people at this point have the ability to spread their wings out and not just grow
the gang but organize it in in ways that you know haven't really happened before now they're all across America
and they're recruiting people who have never been to California into the Aran Brotherhood and all of a sudden it turns
into you know a California prison gang to something with a nationwide reach the gangs are very sophisticated you know
you can't take them lightly every time that law enforcement adjusts to how prison gangs operated they would adjust
and change their method of operation from the perspective of the Department of Justice the advantage of
getting these guys into federal prison is kind of seen as a way to break the gang up but there's this giant caveat to
that because really the only way to do that is to cut off their ability to communicate with the outside and that
legally is restricted communication is the lifeblood of the gangs today it's cell
phon smuggled cell phones prior to cell phones they used people paroling they would take out a message or they would
talk to visitors they had written correspondence most of it coded well communication amongst the Aryan
Brotherhood and prison was multifaceted we used code s and kites that we would send through
Messengers if it was going to the street we had people come visit us and often times we would send coded messages out
through the mail you had the most common way was to take urine on yellow legal paper and you would write the message
and Ur on the legal paper it would dry and you couldn't see it but when the party who received it got it they would
take an iron or just a torch and heat it and the wording would come out I think TD Bingham and Barry Mills had
sort of worldwide domination aspirations they wanted to grow this gang into something the likes of which had never
been seen before and that's what they were attempting to do in 1995 the government sent TD
Bingham Barry Mills and other high ranking members to the federal supermax prison USP Florence admax in Colorado
that's the most secure prison in United States so there's terrorists in there there's gang leaders from all over the
country well they got moved to adx because the Federal Bureau of Prisons wanted to restrict their ability to
communicate and Order AB members throughout the federal bureau prison system to do different you know acts of
violence so they moved them to adx to restrict their ability to communicate the Cali of individual there
you have are jihadist and I think um the idea there was to to essentially cut off
the head of the snake via that isolation it's pretty isolated their mail is heavily censored
I don't believe they receive contact visits so they receive video visits from inside the supermax prison
TD Bingham still managed to send out messages and engage in Conflict remotely with another gang the DC
blacks there was plenty of violence between DC blacks and the Aryan Brotherhood there were murders back and
forth you kill one of ours we kill one of yours type of thing and then um it kind of the tension came to a head where
the Aryan brotherhood's commission you know decided like hey are we going to call an allout War here there was a
number of notes that that went out but the note that came from TD Bingham basically just said war with DC blacks
It Was Written in invisible ink and it was attached to a letter that just had a bunch of written on it that was totally
innocuous if you know how to read it and you you reveal the invisible ink it's really a Kill
Order TD Bingham declared a war against the DC blacks gang at the federal prison
Lewisburg in Pennsylvania it kicked off a number of other stabbings I think two murders and
two other attempted murders that same day in Lewisburg the letter was written in adx Florence where TD Bingham and
Barry Mills were already housed and it did underscore how dangerous he was because he was able to write you know a
couple letters on a piece of paper and kick off basically a Nationwide race war within the prison
system there are a number of ways to communicate you know you and I could stand here and look at each other and I
could use Morse code with my eyelids and here's the thing when you have nothing else to do but sit in yourself
and conceive ideas that will circumvent that which they're attempting to impose upon
you sooner or later you're going to find a way to circumvent that Authority in 2002 the government finally indicted
several members of the Aran Brotherhood including Bingham under the racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act
known as Rico Rico is a federal statute that was originally used against organized crime
back in New York New Jersey and Chicago uh they used it against the loosa Nostra
and it's based on a conspiracy it's a very very effective way to prosecute a gang the federal government indicted
about 40 AB members they were seeking the death penalty against 40 individuals that's
pretty damn significant I had just retired and they brought me back to organize the security for that trial
because number one we had 40 defendants we had to keep track of I think we had 70 defense Witnesses we had to keep
track of and we had over a 100 prosecution witnesses one thing as the ab is known
for is they always want to escape so we were always dealing with Escape plots the death penalty was on the table okay
so the ab was saying hey if if any AB member gets executed they'll take out four or five
cops well during the course and these Rico prosecutions take a couple of years during a course of this several
prosecutors changed and they decided to take the death penalty off the table the
RICO prosecution of the aring Brotherhood was an absolute failure they failed in that the best they could get
out of that was life sentences life sentences for individuals that were already serving life so that was the
expenditure of millions of dollars so that they could have another life sentence added onto their life
sense in November 2006 TD Bingham and other AB gang members were convicted of violent crimes in Aid of racketeering
and murder Bingham received a sentence of life without parole Bingham remained at the supermax
prison USP Florence admax in Colorado I think that because of how restrictive TD
bingham's prison conditions are he doesn't wield any direct power over the ab right now but he's kind of an icon or
he's seen as sort of this influential figure who's almost like a martyr or kind of you know something approaching a
saint within the gang my feelings about the Aran Brotherhood today is that um they
parallel most your hate groups I despise it I despise the idea that young minds are being
influenced by individuals who by my best estimation and opinion are sick in their own
minds what makes TD Bingham one of the most dangerous prisoners in history is not his ability as a fighter which was
pretty incredible but what makes him so dangerous was the fact that he could literally just write a couple letters
down on a piece of paper and have somebody killed thousands of miles away like that level of power just doesn't
exist in society giving him 15 minutes a day outside of his cell could result in
in people getting killed giving him you know phone calls with whoever he wants could result in getting people
killed I've always understood something about TD and that his he has no compulsion against
killing regardless I think if TD Bingham got out of his current you know cell he'd still be a
threat for right now I think the feds are pretty confident they've got him locked down to the point where he can
interact with people and if that's not true true they probably won't realize it until it's too
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Tyler Davis Bingham started his criminal career as a petty thief, but once he found himself locked up behind bars, his illicit aspirations flourished when he became one of the founders of the notorious prison gang, the Aryan Brotherhood.

How did Tyler “TD” Bingham rise the ranks of the Aryan Brotherhood, and where does he stand now?

World’s Most Evil Prisoners is a chilling exploration of the terrifying offenders sentenced to a lifetime behind bars. Locked away, yet still driven by their twisted desires, these inmates delve into acts of torture, abduction, and homicide. Prepare to confront the criminals from the darkest facets of humanity.

Brief Summary

Tyler Davis Bingham, known as The Hulk, became a notorious Aryan Brotherhood leader through extreme violence and manipulation from prison.

Key points

The Hulk of Prisons. Tyler Davis Bingham, known as 'The Hulk,' was feared by inmates and guards alike.
Prison Life's Harsh Reality. Inmates must fight and be violent to survive in prison environments.
Currency of Violence. In prison, violence serves as the primary currency among gangs.
Bingham's Deadly Reputation. Tyler Davis Bingham was known for his lethal approach to conflicts.
Violence in California Prisons. Gang violence led to numerous injuries and fatalities, causing significant unrest in prisons.
TD Bingham's Rise in the Aryan Brotherhood. Bingham quickly asserted his power within the Aryan Brotherhood after returning to prison.

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He was probably the most dangerous man I've ever known.

Describing Tyler Davis Bingham's reputation.

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