Aryan Circle

The Aryan Circle, founded in 1985, was an organized white supremacy group which was allegedly created within the Texas Department of Corrections prisons. This was a splinter group of the Texas Aryan Brotherhood, formed within the Correctional System to protect white prisoners.

The AC is often confused with the AB, the older, wider spread and vastly more infamous rival. Although the two gangs have similar names and iconography there are substantial differences in their history, organizational structure and ideology.


Once concentrated solely in Texas, the AC currently operates inside and outside prisons in at least 13 other states, according to law enforcement officials. The gang is more ideologically driven by a white nationalist revolutionary agenda than other white prison gangs. Beliefs of the AC include separation of the white race from all others for the betterment and preservation of the race. They consider their enemies to be all who are against them and those who attempt to oppress them. The AC have now been designated as a Security Threat Group and members, when identified, are place in administrative segregation.