Prison Stories

Pokémon, Power, and Prison

For a nerdy kid, a Myspace post was the gateway to gangbanging

Aunray Stanford
GEN
Published in
5 min readJan 16, 2019

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AtAt nine years old, I was lame. I wasn’t handicapped in any way — just pathetically devoted to Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, which in my neighborhood, may have been an even bigger stigma than a physical disability. As a result, I was friendless. The majority of my…

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Aunray Stanford
GEN
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Aunray is a Youth Mentor in the Crossroads Juvenile Center. He is also studying Community Advocacy and Social Policy at NYU. Email Aunray at AunrayNYU@gmail.com