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Archive Home > 2006 > January > 17 > From gangbanger to author and poet

From gangbanger to author and poet

By Cindy Powers / The Bulletin
January 17, 2006

It's not every day that an award-winning author tells kids who are in trouble not to follow in his footsteps.

But that's exactly the recommendation Luis J. Rodriguez - who turned away from gang life in East Los Angeles when he was 18 - made to residents of the Deschutes County Juvenile Resource....

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