I was neighborhood Crip.

It's one of the biggest Crip cartels in America.

How'd your mom react to that arrest? It's easy to die. And it's, you could just like, it's just so simple to the point where the most cowardest person could just pull a trigger and kill you. Why do you think death was always a proponent for you getting into trouble? Like, my first experience really like in prison. So I'm like, yo, I'm in prison. like I'm down state now.

It's just like this is what all the stories I've been hearing from people that have like in prison. So I'm like, yo, I'm in prison. Like, I'm downstate now.

It's just like this is what all the stories I've been hearing from people that went in prison before.

And they was telling me the stories. Everything is starting to add up.

Jaquan Allah caught his first gun charged at 16 and spent years in and out of New Jersey prisons as a crip.

From growing up in poverty to surviving the system and walking free in 2023, his story

is raw, real, and all about redemption. Flash, welcome to Locked in. Thanks so much for

coming on the show today. Thank you for having me, man. We locked in. Yeah, you and the crew drove

from New Jersey to be here today. Yeah, yeah, man, I had to get here. You know, my cousin, when I was in a halfway house, my cousin had, he had sent this to me.

It was like, yo, man, check this out.

And big, bro, interview people coming home, you know, officers, people telling their stories

and stuff.

So I was like, oh, all right, I jumped on the page and I was looking.

I'm like, yo, I gotta get on here. Like, you know what I'm saying? I got a story to tell, like, you know what I'm saying, coming from where I come from.

So I was like, and everything that I've been through far as the incarceration, so I was like,

yo, I got to get on here.

So like my second day home, I sent the email out.

I didn't get nothing back.

So I'm like, oh, all right, you know, just waited patiently. Then, like, one day I checked my emails and I was like, oh, they wrote me back.

Yo, they hit me with like information, contact information. So I was like, all right, it's late, you know, and, you know, I've been ready ever since. So, man, nice to meet you, bro. Yeah, you too, bro. I mean, it's a podcast for just like the average ordinary people, you know, so you don't have to be a celebrity to be on the show, which is the coolest part.

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