Black Gangsters Who Built Empires From Behind Bars

Prison walls were supposed to end their power. For some of America's most notorious Black gangsters, they became headquarters. This documentary follows the men who kept building — and running — criminal empires from behind bars. George Jackson founded the Black Guerrilla Family inside San Quentin. Rayful Edmond, Washington D.C.'s biggest cocaine dealer, kept moving drugs from a federal cell before turning informant. And Crips co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams went from death row to Nobel Prize nominations before his execution in 2005. Using court records, prison files and contemporary reporting, we look at how these empires worked from the inside, and what finally brought them down. Subscribe to Bloody Reports for new true crime documentaries every week. #TrueCrime #BlackHistory #PrisonHistory