Out of the Red
eBook - ePub

Out of the Red

My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption

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eBook - ePub

Out of the Red

My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption

About this book

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 Bloodsoffered 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Gangs
  10. Part II: Prison
  11. Part III: Redemption
  12. Appendix A: Lists of San Antonio Gangs Early to Mid-1990s
  13. Appendix B: San Antonio Gang Member Interviews
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. Series List