Ex-gang member La'Ron "Clown" Jones opens up about his lived experience from his childhood memories as a kid, life and choices as a gang member, to doing life in prison. This book is designed for book clubs with the hope to inspire and encourage at-risk youths and gang members to be more open, transparent, and vulnerable about their life experiences, which can transpire to be a major healing process. La'Ron has been given an amazing opportunity while incarcerated to work alongside some amazing community partners, which has also shined light on a problem. There are those who wish to support incarcerated individuals but don't feel relatable or don't understand the gang culture which overpopulate prisons. This book is guaranteed to help close those unrelatable and generational gaps. La'Ron's goal is to have volunteers, mentors, facilitators, self-betterment clubs, etc. use this book as a guide to help create real, raw, relatable, and uncomfortable conversations.
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La'Ron was the first convicted lifer in the state of Nebraska who was allowed to visit young men under the age of eighteen at the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility (NCYF).
La'Ron and eight other men were the first adult lifers in the United States who were allowed to live at a youth penitentiary as Intentional Peer Supporters.
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A fraction of the proceeds from this book will be used to buy more of these books to send across the United States to our at-risk youth--to places such as youth organizations, group homes, alternative schools, juvenile prisons, county jails, and to requested women and men in adult prison.
