I decided I was going to run away from home.

I got jumped in, Helen Keller Park, robbing burglarizing, selling dough. I tried it all. I was on a track to either killing somebody or killing myself. He says, fuck over, white boy. I said, all right, man, I scoot over. He sits down. As soon as he sits down, I jump up and boom, I rack him, drop him off of the thing, and now I'm on him. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Tyler Corkerin is one of the most remarkable individuals I've ever spoken with.

He grew up in a working class family in Lancaster, California.

But at the age of 14, Tyler ran away from home and joined the Cripps Street Gang in

South Central Los Angeles.

Seriously, he was a fully fledged white Crip gang member with

the 120 Raymond Crips. He got jumped in and everything. Wild. Then at the age of 17, he caught

an attempted robbery case in Lancaster, got tried as an adult, and was sentenced to 80 years

to life, one of the harshest sentences in the history of California.

He served time on level four yards all over the state, gang banging alongside his Raymond brothers.

He was involved in numerous prison riots, went to the shoe a bunch of times,

and was nearly killed during a brawl on the yard when a skinhead sliced him across the neck.

But a few years into his stretch, Tyler began to change.

He'd outgrown the gang life.

He decided to drop out and then underwent a complete spiritual and mental transformation.

He accepted his life sentence, and instead of fighting it, he became the best version of himself,

all while living in the hell that is maximum security prison.

Years later, after criminal reforms took place in California, Tyler's case went back before a judge for resentencing.

And after 19 years of his life inside of some of the worst prisons in America, Tyler was released with time served.

And just a few years after getting released, he's got an

amazing life. He has a new family, and he's developing his life story with top Hollywood production

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