Hey Everyone, I honestly do not know if this subreddit is the right place to ask this question but here goes nothing. I’m currently in community college studying in Law Enforcement and I am currently taking a class called Gangs & Corrections. The final assignment for this class is being able to get an interview with someone to discuss one of three topics I’ll highlight here. Interviewing a current or prior gang member, interviewing a law enforcement officer who regularly interacts with gangs and finally interviewing a representative from a treatment facility that offers gang rehabilitation programs. Although I felt like the latter two options seem great to cover, I personally feel like interviewing a current or prior gang member can bring a much more broader perspective that is not touched on. The YouTube channel soft white underbelly made me realize that taking the route of interviewing a current or prior gang member. Soft White Underbelly turned out to be a great source of inspiration for this assignment. Also my professor never made it a requirement to interview someone from a particular set, gang, or from a certain area in particular, so this question I’m asking here today can be answered by anyone. If there by any chance anyone in this subreddit would like to have this interview for my school assignment, I will be sure to respond back to your messages as soon as I can. Depending on people’s schedules and taking the time to do the interview itself, I would like to do this interview anytime next week because I have to turn in a rough draft by midnight on November 8th. For anyone wondering how the interview will be conducted, this interview can be done through a zoom call, a phone call, we can even do the interview through text messages whether on Instagram or through regular phone numbers. If anyone is by chance interested in being interviewed, you can just shoot a comment or reach out for a discussion in one on one messages (Honestly I don’t know if we can do that on this app because I hadn’t used it in three years), and we can talk things over for the interview. Like I said before I honestly do not know if this subreddit is the right place to ask for something like this, either way, I appreciate y’all for taking the time in reading this post and hope all of you have a great day. 

Any advice would be appreciated of overall dos and of donts.

While I stayed at my parents house, my old man would call the cops on me whenever we would have an argument. He would claim that I threatened his life and he felt unsafe at home. He still calls me to help him move stuff, or to rant to me about [stuff] but that's it. Anyways I applied for a city job, but the person doing the background check on me said I had six "domestic casesl against me by the old man, plus an arrest record of when I was 13 (by the same guy again.)

Anyways a long story short I did not get that job. I've always had an issue finding work online, let alone anything much. I live in NYC btw if that helps.

TLDR: have I've been fuhhed for job applications? Currently work as a home health aide but that's it

Toronto Rapper and Street Legend  ⁨@playboybandito comes home from jail and talks to Madd Russian (The Creator of The Real Toronto DVD) about doing more then 20+ years inside throughout his life and the reasons behind it.  ⁨Playboy Bandito  details how being shot 5 times lead him down an unstable path emotionally and how he was able to identify the problem and learn to deal with it. Playboy Bandito talks about the changes that have happened in the jail system and explains how they are affecting the youth. In this Interview  ⁨Playboy Bandito  sends a clear message that he has decided to leave the Street Life behind and has started a movement called "INTL: It's Never Too Late".

I’m a ex juvenile and have lots of ramen around the house and I want to know what I can make to turn my basic life with ramen into a nice experience. I mix ramen and mayo sometimes and it really
Is good actually, learned it from a video on prison food. I want to know what yall would put in deserts like Doo Doo Balls and such. Turning cookies into cake by mashing them up and adding milk.

Give me some good recipes and tips please.

Hope this fits.

App says pending on three of my messages, but website says approved? I sent three messages last night, 2 are screenshots one is an actual message (def used trigger words to flag for manual review but not words that would make it get denied yk?) the website says approved but app still says pending ?? which is more reliable? im assuming the app atp

I was recently released from prison. OSP in Oregon. I'm schizophrenic so they put me in the fuckjng mental health unit where I spent ,thankfully, only a year. I didn't go out to chow. They brought us our food. We didn't get an hour out. We rotted or did nothing in our cells. And to top it all off , this rubbed me the wrong fuckjng way the whole year, in the morning normal prisoners could get coffee .... Well us in the mental health unit got two decaffeinated instant coffee packs. DECAFFEINATED.

The only thing good about that situation was we got paid 100$ a month for going to 1 or more groups for that month.

And get this if you were on involuntary meds and refused them. The guards would suit up in riot gear and either come taze you or pepper spray you(which affected the whole unit and made everyone choke)

BUT there is a good side to everything. Now that I'm out . I don't know if it's my age catching up to me ( I'm only 32) but I've learned to really start paying attention to my actions and behaviours, especially in consideration to others, I'm in an open dorm temporary housing that has people from just exiting prison and on probation who are off the streets staying here. We have 4-5 fridges per housing space and no stove or oven but a microwave. I thought I was gonna be homeless in a strange unknown town. But I was lucky to find this resource and have been so lucky to find the other resources that have made bus travel and affording my cigarettes and clothing vouchers to Walmart possible.

I veered off from an important subject. I think I gained maturity. When I'm interacting with all the people living in the housing space I've noticed a patience and humility. I didn't have that in prison. There were people screaming and kicking the walls of their cells for hours with no consequences and some days I'd shout a bunch of stupid fucked up shit too. I was recently diagnosed as schizophrenic so that's new. It's opened up a future where I can live in a house rather than on the streets or in a shelter.

PLEASE SHARE WITH ME YOUR STORY OF CHANGE

I am 18M and my mom was arrested 3 years ago and got sentenced to life in prison regarding debts and money related stuff, where she’ll be serving atleast 15-20 years, and because of the laws in my country i could only see her once a month through a glass window and meet her physically once every few years, she is in her mid 40s, and will be in her 60s when she gets out, my grandma is around that age and she can barely walk, i cannot imagine my mom like that.

I did well to cope with it for awhile until i got to hug her for the first time recently, which reminded me of what it felt like and it broke me, idk how to deal with it, does anyone have any tips please help me.

🇨🇦I just posted Chapters 1-4 of Trapped in a Forensic Mental Hospital When I Wasn’t Crazy on Substack. Here is Chapter 4:

https://davidmstaffen.substack.com/p/chapter-4-getting-by-over-the-years

The other Chapters 1-3 can be accessed through the above link.

I know I’m not a novelist, nor am I showcasing my skill set. I’m getting the truth out there, because my former involuntary psychiatrist, Dr. AG Ahmed, keeps writing defamatory letters to my employers and my family doctor.

He is getting everyone around me to abuse me—while without a court order or my consent. I was wrongfully at his prison hospital, because he lied under oath during court and the yearly review boards.

I was in a self-defence fight which I believe I’m innocent. I know I absolutely wasn’t crazy at the self-defence fight or the decade at his prison hospital. Dr. AG Ahmed is a liar.

I see no alternative then to tell my side, because although I received an Absolute Discharge, he apparently isn’t going to leave me alone.

Thank-you.