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Gang Life: In The Words of Gang Members

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PRISON HAS GIVEN ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN WHAT REALITY IS. THAT LIFE ISN'T JUST ONE BIG GAME. AFTER SEEING MANY PEOPLE SERVING LIFE IN PRISON I REALIZED, DO I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE WAKING UP IN A CELL EATING FOOD THAT'S NO SATISFYING, ASKING MYSELF, WHY SPEND YEAR'S IN PRISON SUFFERING, WHEN I CAN SPEND YEAR'S IN A COLLEGE, MAKING MYSELF PROUDER AND HAPPIER.

BEING INCARCERATED GIVES EVERYONE A DIFFERENT PROSPECTIVE ABOUT LIFE REALIZING NO ONE CARE'S ABOUT YOU, BUT YOUR FAMILY. EVERYONE INVOLVED IN GANG'S DO WHAT IT TAKES TO GAIN THE RESPECT AND TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED BY THOSE WHO GOT RESPECT. BUT SOMETHING I LEARNED FROM PRISON IS RESPECT AIN'T ALWAYS THE BEST THING IN LIFE.

MY ATTITUDE HAS CHANGED FOR THE MOST PART. I'M STILL INVOLVED IN GANG'S WHILE INCARCERATED AND DON'T PLAN ON CHANGING WHAT I HAVE LEAD MYSELF TO DOING MORE TIME FOR. BUT I HAVE GOT THE CHANCE TO LEARN ABOUT MYSELF AND WHO I AM, I'VE LET GO OF DRUG'S AND LEARNED WHAT I WANT TO BE IN LIFE. I NEVER HAD A ROLE MODEL, BUT DOESN'T MEAN I CAN'T BECOME SOMEBODY ELSE'S ROLE MODEL.

THE DRUG'S I USED MADE ME DO THE THINGS I DID. STEAL, ROBBING HOUSES, STEALING CAR'S, MESSING WITH GUN'S ETC. SOMETIMES IT WAS FOR RESPECT TO BE THE BIGGER MAN, BUT STILL ONCE ADDICTED TO METH IT WAS TO SUPPORT MY HABIT. MY ATTITUDE WAS I DON'T CARE AND I'M UNSTOPPABLE. IF ANYONE STEP'S IN MY WAY I'LL DO, WHAT I MUST.

IF I HAD ONE MORE CHANCE, I'D GO BACK TO SCHOOL, GET INTO SPORT'S , NO DRUG'S, NO GANG'S OR PEOPLE WHO WOULD DESTROY MY FUTURE. I'D OPEN MY MIND INTO BECOMING SOMETHING. YOUNG GANG MEMBERS DON'T UNDERSTAND LIFE IS MORE PRECIOUS THEN A 40 OZ. OF LIQUOR AND WEED, EVEN SOME CORRUPTED WOMEN.