“I had a lot of gang friends and we done a lot of things. I wish I hadn’t done half the things I done. We all been to prison. I been five times. I got out a few months ago.”

Was he still in a gang? “I don’t call them a gang, I call them ‘my boys’, but other people might call us a gang. I need to leave my boys behind because I don’t plan on going back inside. But leaving the roads ain’t easy. Construction is my thing. I’m good with my hands, I can dig all day.”

“I had a lot of gang friends and we done a lot of things. I wish I hadn’t done half the things I done. We all been to prison. I been five times. I got out a few months ago.”

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