Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Life in prison can be spontaneously violent | Streets & Scholars (EP54) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 54

Life in prison can be spontaneously violent | Streets & Scholars (EP54)

In this episode 54 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss: 

- 05:01 - The family of Shanquella Robinson still wants answers for the fight that killed her while on vacation in Mexico with friends. 

- 08:52 -  Mitchy Slick's song, "Won't Stop Being a Blood" featured F.G. when he was serving his 10-year sentence for providing cocaine to Mob James McDonald, rapped by Big Tupp from Cross Atlantic Piru. 

- 16:47 - Kenny Carter, Bunchy Carter's younger brother was released from prison after serving 50 years in prison. He was incarcerated in 1972, and was released in December 2022. 

- 31:15 - FG was in music video, by Second 2 None. 

- 40:53 - Paul "Lil Doc" Wallace from East Coast Crips may have been stabbed in Victorville federal prison. Lil Doc was instrumental in the truce that occurred between the Florencia 13 and East Coast Crips in 2019, but he was indicted on a murder RICO case and sentenced to 30 years. 

-Life in Victorville prison can be violent and how inmates negotiate violence that occurs between the Crips, Bloods and Mexican Southsiders is discussed. 

- Eric Holder received 60 years to Life sentence. What will his life be like when he hits the penitentiary this month.    

 

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.