Prison Gangster Legend

BARRY “THE BARON” MILLS IS ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUSLY VIOLENT LEADERS OF THE INFAMOUS ARYAN BROTHERHOOD.

John Marzloff was almost decapitated in a recreation yard bathroom at USP Atlanta, a high-security federal prison in Georgia on May 20, 1979. The convict’s head was partially severed from his neck, and 16 stab wounds dotted his head, back, shoulder, and upper arm area. Marzloff was killed because he’d had the nerve to cheat an Aryan Brotherhood (AB) shot caller out of some money in a drug transaction at another Bureau of Prisons penitentiary. Marzloff was put “in the hat,” meaning the gang put a contract on his life. Another prisoner, Danny Holliday, told prosecutors that Barry “The Baron” Mills carried out the murder. The message sent was clear – Fuck the AB over at your own peril.

“Barry Mills is extremely intelligent and very charismatic,” John Lee Brook, the author of Blood In Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood, tells me. “Two books – Dale Carnegie’s How To Make Friends and Influence People and Machiavelli’s The Prince – had a great impact on his perspective of life.”