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172. I became a gang member after suffering racist abuse

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You've Still Got a Life, You Know?

I was first introduced to this work, a short time after coming out of prison and asked to talk to a Southeast London gang about prison. After talking to them for two hours and they were really quiet, the gang started to disperse. People wanted to leave the gang. So it had a massive impact and, you know, the charity I run was started through that. Now I go into schools, I do a lot of child criminal exploitation sessions, teaching about how easy it is to get trapped into a gang. I rescue a lot of children from gangs. There's been some horrific stories. We've been going nearly 18 years. And we try to change people's thinking so they change their

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