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Chang describes prison stabbing designed to ‘bleed him out quicker’

Modern Wisdom · Ex-Gang Member: What Makes A Violent Man Change? - Johnny Chang · August 22, 2026
Chang describes prison stabbing designed to ‘bleed him out quicker’
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Ex-Gang Member: What Makes A Violent Man Change? - Johnny Chang
"And then he gets up and he takes a breath. And then the guy stabs him. Boom. And hits him in the chest. And that's that's the first time I've seen someone leak out. So what he was doing was he was getting his heart rate up to like make sure he would bleed him out quicker."
Discussing prison violence, Chang recounts an incident he says he witnessed in which an inmate was encouraged to do burpees and then stabbed immediately after, in what he interpreted as a tactic to increase blood loss. He frames it as an example of manipulation and calculated violence inside maximum-security yards.
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