"This is my jail," White, who is awaiting trial for attempted murder, bragged on a tapped phone call from the Baltimore City Detention Center. "I make every final call in this jail."
The FBI spared few words for the leadership of the prisons, in which inmates used smuggled cell phones to arrange drug deals, as well as order assaults and murders outside the jail, according to the indictment.
White "effectively raised the BGF flag over the Baltimore City Detention Center," FBI Special Agent Stephen Vogt, said in a statement.
"The inmates literally took over 'the asylum,' and the detention centers became safe havens for BGF," Vogt said.
A total of 15 guards, seven inmates and five gang members were indicted in the conspiracy, according to the FBI.
Inmates bought contraband and gifts for guards, including luxury cars, using reloadable debit cards. And guards smuggled contraband in their underwear, using entrances where they knew they would not be thoroughly screened, the indictment states.
The Black Guerilla Family began in California in the 1960s but has since spread across the country. Gang members first appeared in Maryland prisons in the 1990s.
"Ninety-nine percent of our correctional officers do their jobs with integrity, honesty, and respect," said Secretary Gary Maynard of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
According to Maynard, 60 percent of all correction officers in Maryland are women.