The Ex-Con
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On November 20th 1987 16 year old Tahime Perry's life changed and took a turn for the worst. Three people he was associated with robbed and violently attacked a few dealers in retaliation for an attack on a friend of theirs. Tahime was the getaway driver but they all got caught and scattered. Two of his friends as well as him went down for armed robbery and violent beating of the drug dealers while his other friend got away. One of the dealers that was attacked later died. His friends got life sentences, while he got 20 years in prison for being underaged at the time. He wasn't a drug dealer, he hung around the wrong people, he was a promising athlete at Booker T Washington High In Southside Chicago, he was a multiple time state champion in high school amateur wrestling. Things have changed a lot within the two decades he's been behind bars, the cars, clothes, music, life in general has changed. When he went into jail Ronald Reagan was president, MTV was the music channel of choice, Gas was $0.96 cents, groceries for a week rounded out to about 15 dollars or so. Now in 2007 George W. Bush is in his last year of presidency, B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television) is the music channel of choice, Gas is $2.85 on average, Food for a week cost a family of 4 well over $30 to 35 dollars. Technology has changed as well, Windows Vista and Windows 7 are the computer operating systems of choice. The new recently released IPhone was also now the phone of choice. How would the now almost 40 year old Tahime Perry adjust to life on the outside, in what is basically a new world?
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