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...Folsom State Prison near Sacramento, California, Olmos met an inmate who was making license plates...
Inside, there is order. Here Santana (Olmos), in California's Folsom State Prison for murder, finds fulfillment as leader of the Mexican Mafia gang. He runs an operation to collect "rent," which can be cigarettes, knives or drugs. The idea, as the protagonist frequently reminds us, is simple: once you control the inside, you control the outside...
...prison, where "things make sense," Olmos narrates the scenes in coarse verse. "Thought I knew it all/Ended up in Juvie Hall,/ and the shit got even deeper," he says as the scene cuts from juvenile hall to the inside of Folsom...
...American Me, which was filmed on location at Folsom, a federal prison and a juvenile hall, Olmos received unparalled access from prison officials, and he used...
Every spring around this time, Gregory Gorbach gets fired. He currently teaches 10th-grade science at Folsom High School outside Sacramento, and he's good at his job. Last month, right on schedule, the principal called him in and handed him a pink slip. But sometime over the summer, once the school district figures out how much money it really has to spend, it may hire Gorbach again. This pattern doesn't do a lot for his morale. "I like teaching," he says, "but if I have to, I'll leave it. I don't feel teachers should have...