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About half of those prisoners are Latino, and Munguia told internal investigators the Mexican Mafia dictates their lives behind bars.

California law dictates the release of these kind of records, unless there is a specific exemption.

In official statements, Bovino has justified the raid by noting that the sector’s area of responsibility stretches from the border to the Oregon line, “as mission and threat dictates.”

Those with political dominance are purging branches of the civil service, taking over national arts organizations, defunding entitlement programs and threatening corporations that defy their dictates.

“I used to say picture dictates sound, but sometimes it’s the other way around,” Lynch once told The Paris Review.