Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang21-01

Chris Suggs, 38, former governor of North Memphis in the Gangster Disciples, is serving 26 years at West Tennessee State Penitentiary for especially aggravated kidnapping. He {quote}plugged out{quote} of the gang after more than a decade of working up the ranks. {quote}If I pray with one man and see him not affiliated, and he gets his GED, makes parole, becomes a real man, then there is purpose for me being here.{quote}(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)

Chris Suggs, 38, former governor of North Memphis in the Gangster Disciples, is serving 26 years at West Tennessee State Penitentiary for especially aggravated kidnapping. He "plugged out" of the gang after more than a decade of working up the ranks. "If I pray with one man and see him not affiliated, and he gets his GED, makes parole, becomes a real man, then there is purpose for me being here." 

(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)