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From a cell in San Quentin, the San Francisco Bay Area’s internationally known California state prison, comes to you the true biography of an incarcerated felon, Jay Jay. Raised in the Silicon Valley during an era when farms out numbered industry, Jay Jay found trouble young - very young. Serving time at age 12 is not the beginning of Jay Jay's descent into criminality. Take a crash course on the drug game with Jay Jay, and you will find yourself hearing about scenarios you never imagined possible.

Twelve fascinating interviews with a California death row inmate....

Imprisoned at 15! Beaten by the police! Thrown in solitary confinement!No, she is not innocent. Even so, she was a child. A "super predator", said the politicians - a person who ought never to see daylight! The times have changed. Her voice rises like her name: Seraphim Jade. In Chronicles of a Female Prisoner, you will come to understand the causes that lead Seraphim Jade to a life sentence for murder. Her case made it on the front page, a child super predator, and the youth authority guards took it on themselves to bring her pain.

Twenty-seven years after the murder of Nancy Willem, the State of California has not put Johnny Miles to death. He has lived in a one-person cell on San Quentin’s death row, among hundreds of others convicted of first-degree murder. Johnny Miles has had to find a measure of acceptance to continue living on death row; he has chosen to live while under the sentence of death. The learning curve is meant for the learned: a person that can separate flair from meaning...more or less an investigative and curious art enthusiast and/or enjoyer of abstract poetry.

Listen as five criminals tell their stories. Jay Jay found trouble young, very young. Serving time at age 12 is not the beginning of Jay Jay’s descent into criminality. Cjay has been in nearly as many prisons as she has fingers, yet nothing in her upbringing predestined her for crime. Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances, became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity. Brian was a young man with a twinkle in his eye and a propensity for getting caught.

From Hood to Heels is the unbelievable true story of a child raised in violent circumstances who became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight to an inner secret of female identity. From Hood to Heels presents two stories in one: first, the personal experience of a child born in violent circumstances; you will come to know the world of drug dealing, gangs, and violence. You will grow uncomfortable as children make life and death decisions that often increase the circle of violence.

38 Years Later covers two periods in Brian’s life: before prison and life in prison. The before-prison story takes the listener through Brian’s upbringing and early-life choices while living in the San Francisco Bay Area. The before-prison story also covers in detail the extraordinary play-by-play of Brian’s 1980 commitment offense, an offense for which he remains in prison today. The life-in-prison story reveals how time does not stop when men face the world in shackles.

Mouthpiece is a brutally told biographical sketch of an incarcerated pimp in prison for human trafficking. Raw boasts and brazen inner-city tales litter the story’s violent, unrepentant landscape. Like a marked man, Mouthpiece keeps after the listener with a cold perspective. Money is the aim, and young women are the product.

Holler at Your Girl is a one-of-a-kind account of a presently incarcerated transgender woman who knew from an early age her identity yet had to suffer immense trials before finding her soul.

Willkommen im San Quentin Staatsgefängnis! Komm und treffe deinen neuen „Zellennachbarn“. Sein Name ist Jay Jay er hatte Probleme mit seiner Familie, Drogenabhängigkeit und Kriminalität. Tatsächlich begann sein Vorstrafenregister im Alter von 12 Jahren, als er und sein Freund jemand fast zu Tode geprügelt haben. Lassen Sie sich davon aber nicht beunruhigen, da Sie in jedem der My Crime-Bücher erfahren werden, dass jedes Verbrechen einen Grund hatte.

Bienvenue à la Prison Fédérale de San Quentin. Venez faire la connaissance de notre nouveau pensionnaire. Il s’appelle Jay Jay et il a une histoire à raconter concernant traumatisme familial, addiction et criminalité. Jay Jay a fait des allers-retours en prison pendant la majorité de sa vie. Il a inauguré son casier judiciaire à l’âge de douze ans, quand il a tabassé à mort un sans-abri avec son voisin. Ne prenez pas cet air choqué, car, vous le verrez dans chaque livre de la série My Crime, tout crime a sa part de raison.