From an early age kids identify with gang identity. If you ask a kid where he lives he’ll tell you there by the Americans or the Hard Livings, and therefore he won’t be friends with a kid from the Ghetto area. It starts of very innocent, kids play fighting with sticks and stones and as they get older sticks and stones progress to knives and guns and then you really have a problem. This brotherhood becomes your life, but even your own brothers forget about you when you go to prison. You can be a leader in prison, you can have everything you want, but the one thing you will never have is your freedom.
Suleiman Manuel
Suleiman Manuel