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Growing up in a gang neighborhood, Albert attached himself to the gang lifestyle. It eventually led him in and out of six different prisons. He could have easily been mad at the court system, the jury, or GOD, but he changed his way of thinking into something positive. He started writing books about his time in prison, life in a gang, and being on death row for almost three decades.

Albert now has six self-published books on Amazon, making him the only person on any death row to have six books published and each were written in one cell. Albert is advancing his education with classes toward an AA degree and a business certificate. Albert does all of this while experiencing Dyslexia, a learning disability. His message to all is that, “It’s not over as long as you’re walking this earth and he is going to leave a legacy.”

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