Death Was My Next Step: A Child Raised by the Streets

"I sentence you to a total of eighty years in the Department of Corrections." The judge struck the desk with his gavel.

Considered a criminal by the court system and labeled as a threat to society, Dixie Pebworth-a twenty-four year old convicted drug dealer-was sent to a prison that was known as a "gladiator school" in the 1980s. Raised by the streets from the age of nine, his heart turned cold and he ruled the streets as an infamous drug dealer. Lost in the cycle of drug abuse, drug dealin...