3 supremacist inmates get life without parole

Three leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, authorities said.

Barry "The Baron" Mills, Tyler "The Hulk" Bingham and Edgar "The Snail" Hevle were convicted in July of racketeering and conspiring to murder black inmates in several prisons. The federal trial in Santa Ana involved 17 murders or attempted murders dating from 1979.

The U.S. attorney's office plans to seek "special administrative measures" to radically isolate the convicted inmates, who had circumvented maximum-security conditions to conduct gang business throughout the prison system.