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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Colton Simpson; Colton Simpson; Colton Simpson |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Colton Simpson; Ann Pearlman |
ISBN: | 0312329296 9780312329297 031232930X 9780312329303 |
OCLC Number: | 57465758 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xxiii, 323 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / by Ice T -- Transformation -- Gangbanger -- Out of the ghetto and into the CYA -- Road not taken -- Crips module -- The ultimate test : Chino -- Solitary -- Soledad -- Chess games -- Short freedom -- Discipline -- Betrayal -- Reality hits : war and depression -- Candy and a stamp -- Transformation of a Crip -- Uhuru -- Afterword. |
Responsibility: | Colton Simpson with Ann Pearlman. |
More information: |
Abstract:
A memoir of the author's life as a Crip--beginning at the tender age of ten in the mid-seventies--and his prison turnaround nearly twenty-five years later.--From publisher description.
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