Life in prison, by Stanley Tookie Williams

Tookie Williams had a ruff life at 17 hanging out with his friend Raymond Lee Washington they decided to make a street gang in south central L.A. that would protect them from other rival gangs. They got the first thirty people all there friends and made the gang called "Crips"

Raymond in 1979 was killed by a rival gang two years later Stan was found guilty of killing four people in two bank robberies. Stan was sent to San Quentin's Death row on April 20,1981.

when in prison Tookie keeps track of growing copycat Crips gangs across the nation and around the world they are 43 states and in parts of western Africa,south Africa,Sweden,Canada,Germany, and France. Now Stan greatly regrets the violent history of the Crips gang while he spends his last years of life on death row writing books to change kids minds about starting gangs.

As for me I thought the book was believable and that Tookie try his hardest to make his wrongs turn to wrights as he wrote these books to educate his reader about how starting gangs and ending up in prison or dead is not a good thing to do and why you should avoid being in a gang and making sure what happened to Tookie does not happen to you.

on the day Tookie Williams was to be put to death hundreds of people came out to protest and tell them that Tookie should not be executed because he wrote these books that would change peoples lives and make sure that there wont be any more gangs as long and the children of the future read these books and understand the consequences that can hurt you for the rest of your life.

Tookie Williams Sentenced to death in San Quentins Death row on April 20,1981 Executed with lethal injection on December 13,2005. People say "Goodbye Tookie Williams"

Tookie Williams gets 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for extraordinary youth violence prevention and intervention work he has created from a "condemned Row" Prison cell in Californians san Quentin state prison.

by, Matthew Palmer