Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood)

Barry Byron Mills (July 7, 1948 – July 8, 2018) was an American convicted criminal and leader of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) prison gang. Nicknamed "The Baron", Mills was incarcerated in the California state prison system at a young age, where he rose within the AB organization during the 1970s and 80s.[1][2]

Barry Mills
Born(1948-07-07)July 7, 1948
Windsor, California, U.S.
DiedJuly 8, 2018(2018-07-08) (aged 70)
Florence, Colorado, U.S.
Criminal penalty4 life terms
Criminal statusDied while at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, near Florence, Colorado

Mills, from Windsor, California, was first incarcerated in 1967, and jailed for a year in a county lockup. He entered the California state prison system after an armed robbery in 1969, and was in jail from then on.

He became involved with the AB in San Quentin Prison, where the group originated in 1964. He was convicted of nearly decapitating another inmate, John Marsloff, over a gambling debt at USP Atlanta in 1979.[2][3]

According to a federal indictment, Mills was involved in the consolidation of the AB power structure in 1980, where he assumed a seat in a three-member "federal commission" for the gang.[3] Along with Tyler Bingham, he expanded the operations of the AB in federal and state prisons, moving the group into narcotics dealing and racketeering.[4][5][6]

In 1996, Barry Mills proposed that the Aryan Brotherhood absorb the prison gang known as the Dirty White Boys.[7]

In 1997, Mills and his accomplice, Tyler Bingham, reportedly ordered their members to carry out a race war against a rival prison gang, the D.C. Blacks.

In March 2006, Charles Hartsell, a Las Vegas member, and leader of the Las Vegas section, along with three other leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood, including Bingham, were indicted for numerous crimes, including murder, conspiracy, drug trafficking, and racketeering.[8][9] Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham were convicted of murder and sent back to United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility Prison (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, after they were given life sentences without the possibility of parole.[10]

Mills died on July 8, 2018 at the age of 70.[11][12]

See also

References
  1. Richards, Toni (30 August 2006). "Leader of Aryan Brotherhood Deserves to Live, Lawyer Says". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  2. Grann, David (16–23 February 2004). "The Brand". Annals of Crime. The New Yorker.
  3. Colt, Michael (12 November 2002). "Windsor man called leader of prison gang". The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA). Archive Article ID: 0211120151 (NewsBank).
  4. Atkins, Stephen (2011). Encyclopedia of right-wing extremism in modern American history. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 155. ISBN 978-1598843507.
  5. Kansas City Jewish Chronicle By Rick Hellman, Editor November 27, 2002
  6. Grann, David (16–23 February 2004). "The Brand". Annals of Crime. The New Yorker.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Divided by bars and colour". BBC. 5 December 2002. Retrieved 15 June 2007.
  9. "United States v. Barry Byron Mills, et al" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2007.
  10. Find an inmate: BARRY BYRON MILLS − Register Number: 14559-116; Age: 69 (January 17, 2018); Release Date: LIFE. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved 17 January 2018
  11. "Aryan Brotherhood leader dies at Supermax prison in Colorado". KUSA. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  12. "Aryan Brotherhood leader dies at Supermax prison in Colorado". FOX31 Denver. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.

Further reading
  • Brook, John Lee (2011). Blood in Blood Out : The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood. London: Headpress. ISBN 978-1-900486-77-4.

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