The elaborateness of the Familia’s rules, which run to six articles and dozens of subsections, may say as much about the boredom of prison life as it does about the gang’s organization. (The same is probably true of some of its other more Boy-Scoutish activities, which supposedly include making bombs out of match heads, writing secret messages in urine, and communicating in Náhuatl, the ancient language of the Aztecs.)
