. >> darryl samuels is being housed in the carson section section of ad seg for an assault on an officer what's up? >> don't step on my foot. >> okay. okay. >> be cool. >> i was breaking in cars in the projects back in the days. and i got caught when i was 9 years old. after that, it's just been hell from then. i kept going to group homes and kept running from group homes. ended up in wiley. >> not worried [ bleep ]. caught on a gun charge. went to county jail, got out for that. got another gun charge, got sentenced to the penitentiary. got out now. got violation for access to a gun. never had no positive influence. my influence was the streets. i thought that was positive. that's all i knew. i'm thinking that is the right way so i'm going to go that way. that's what i did. >> samuels wants to turn his life around for the sake of his son. he doesn't want his boy to grow up without a father, like he did. >> that's my life right there. that's what i got to live for. that's what i think about all the time. i want to straighten my life out for him. i ain't never had no dad. even though my da