Show Summary

Exposed to violence, guns and gangs at an early age, Johnny had to grow up fast. During his sophomore year of high school, Johnny formed his own gang with his friends who had collectively decided this was their only option while living in the ghetto, and he was the formidable leader. When he was 17 years old, his son was born, and Johnny decided to change his life in order to protect his new family.

Despite Johnny’s efforts, his son got involved with the wrong crowd while living with his mother and is currently serving out a 12-year prison sentence. Johnny wants to join the program in order to show the other inmates—and his son—that gang life, drugs and jail does not need to define them, and it certainly does not dictate what their future needs to look like. He chose to leave gang life, and so can they. He wanted to show his son that jail and prison is simply situational.

We talk about why he wanted to do the show, the affects the show had on himself and his family, sports, politics, and then he flipped it and asked me some questions.

We don’t talk about it on the show but his daughter started a Honey company called American Bee Solutions. We ordered some bottles and want to give three away to the first three people who leave a review on Apple. Screenshot your review and send it to us by text or email. Our contact info is on the contact page at forgivenfelons.org. Check out the website below to order your own.

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American Bee Solutions: https://americanbeesolutions.com/ Tell them you heard about them on Background Check Podcast.

Johnny’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnny.ramirez3/

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