Word: santana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inside, there is order. Here Santana (Olmos), in California's Folsom State Prison for murder, finds fulfillment as leader of the Mexican Mafia gang. He runs an operation to collect "rent," which can be cigarettes, knives or drugs. The idea, as the protagonist frequently reminds us, is simple: once you control the inside, you control the outside...
Such an operation, we soon learn, can be messy. In one case, a drug smuggler puts cocaine in a red balloon and flushes it down a toilet. At the end of the plumbing pipe sit two Santana lieutenants, who dutifully pick through excrement to retrieve the contraband...
...those who do not play by Santana's rules, life is even messier. Bars of prison cells constitute no protection. One foolhardy prisoner who steals drugs from the Mafia has to reckon with Santana's lieutenants. Using an aerosol can to douse the offender with kerosene, they light him on fire, burning him to death...
...freshman Michael Warnick at 142-lb. won their matches. Warnick was major-decisioned in the next round by William and Mary's Thierry Chaney, who was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler. Cole squeaked out a 10-8 win in the quarters before being decisioned 7-2 by Rich Santana of eventual Eastern champion Syracuse...