Jarret Keith grew up with his family in Southern California. They moved around a lot. Some of his family’s moves were to areas with gang activity.
Jarret became friends with some kids who were smoking, drinking, and stealing. He decided to make the same poor choices. “My life was pretty much just a big party,” Jarret says about teenage years. Beginning at age 10, he smoked weed and drank. Then he started dealing.
When he was 19, the police arrested and put him in jail. “I was facing 50 years to life, and I was being charged with first-degree murder,” Jarret remembers.
Party over.
