Richard Cabral

Cabral grew up in East Los Angeles, in a second-generation Mexican-American family. He became active in gang activity from an early age. He said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that his family had been a part of the gang scene since the 1970s. He was a documented member of a gang in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. When he was a child, he was separated from his family. He was incarcerated at the age of 13 for stealing a wallet. Cabral developed an addiction to crack cocaine by the age of 15. He obtained his GED as a teenager but once again got in trouble with the law. He was sentenced to prison for violent assault with a deadly weapon, and was released at the age of 25.\n', 'While Cabral was trying to turn his life around, his friends recommended he seek out the services of Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program based in Los Angeles. He began to act. In 2009, Cabral…