While feminist and critical criminologists have studied the “war on girls,” little attention has been given to violence experienced by gang-involved Chicana mothers. To date, most empirical research has focused on the immediate correlates of gang membership, such as psychosocial risk, delinquency, and victimization, but little research has examined women’s experiences after they have ceased to be active gang members. Similarly, prior work has found that gang-affiliated women experience high rates of interpersonal and community violence, but it has not examined violence, especially institutional violence, after leaving a gang. Thus, it is crucial to understand the post-gang consequences of gang-involvement for mothers. This study addresses this gap by 1) focusing on the role of a former gang affiliation in the experience of institutional violence after gang involvement and 2) highlighting the trails of violence that result from that institutional violence. It draws from life course and intersectionality theories to understand how race, gender, and class statuses relate to violence in the life trajectories of mothers after leaving the gang. The qualitative findings of this work are based on photo elicitation interviews of 13 formerly gang-involved Chicana mothers from Los Angeles, California. The findings indicate that gang-affiliated mothers employ survival strategies at the level of their individual and collective agency to resist and cope with violence from the criminal justice and child welfare systems. This study’s findings include recommendations for prevention and intervention that can be used to interrupt trails of violence for formerly gang-affiliated Chicana mothers and their children.