TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bolden,Christian L.
TI  - Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption 
T2  - Critical Issues in Crime and Society
SN  - 9781978813441
AV  - HV6439.U7 T36 2020
U1  - 364.106/6092 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Texas
KW  - Biography
KW  - Gang members
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Life, gangs, prison, redemption, critical issues, crime, society, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law, Biography, Memoir, Cultural Studies, Human Rights, Outlaws, Discrimination, Race Relations, Poverty, Homelessness, Violence, Penology, Homeless, Fellowship, transitions, Freedom, Outcast, traumatic experiences, ex-gangbanger, Family, protection, excitement, power, rehabilitation, prison gangs, incarceration
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; Introduction --; Part I. Gangs --; 1. Poverty --; 2. Adultism --; 3. Neighborhoods --; 4. Bangin’ in San Antone --; 5. Escalation --; 6. Purgatory --; Part II. Prison --; 7. Texas Hold’em --; 8. Fellowship --; 9. Between the Lines --; 10. Transitions --; 11. Wally World --; 12. Starting from the Bottom --; 13. Letters --; Part III. Redemption --; 14. Outcast --; 15. Freedom --; 16. Pinnacles --; Appendix A: Lists of San Antonio Gangs Early to Mid-1990s --; Appendix B: San Antonio Gang Member Interviews --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978813441
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