THE MEN
OF GRIP
By Juan Haines
A few days after his daughter’s birthday, Javier Perez Trujillo and his family were celebrating at his in-law’s house, Sebastian Rios. There, Javier’s mind began turning over and over again, thinking of his sister, Norma and the mistreatment by her husband, Enrique Castrejon. He hated hearing about the abuse. As he downed beer after beer, his happiness shifted to sadness and then anger. Javier was drunk when rage took control. “I’m going to fuck him up,” he told his brother, Rafael. 22 WALL CITY SPRING 2018
Inmates participanting in a Spanish GRIP sessions
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