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Author Bolden, Christian L., author

Title Out of the red my life of gangs, prison, and redemption / Christian L Bolden
Published New Brunswick, Camden : Rutgers University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Critical issues in crime and society
Contents Poverty -- Adultism -- Neighborhoods -- Bangin' in San Antone -- Escalation -- Purgatory -- Texas hold 'em -- Fellowship -- Between the Lines -- Transitions -- Wally World -- Starting from the bottom -- Letters -- Outcast -- Freedom -- Pinnacles
Summary Out of the Red is one man's pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After a childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, and being thrown away by the public education system, Bolden's life took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of fourteen. The Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarcerated during the Texas prison boom, the teenage former gangster was thrust into a fight for survival as he navigated the perils of adult prison. As mass incarceration and prison gangs swallowed up youth like him, survival meant finding hope in a hopeless situation and carving a path to his own rehabilitation. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger
Subject Bolden, Christian L
Gang members -- Texas -- Biography
Prisoners -- Texas -- Biography
Ex-convicts -- Texas -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Ex-convicts
Gang members
Prisoners
Texas
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
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