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>> i feel like i wasn't the man i was supposed to be for my family. as the leader. i always had an anger problem, i liked to fight. so that's how it started, me getting in trouble in school, suspended from school, fighting. i wanted to hang out on the corner and trying to keep up with the crowd, and that's how i started selling drugs. >> reporter: over the next decade, kareem was sent to jail over and over on drug-related charges. on his short stints behind bars, he encountered muslim converts and flirted with islam, but always went back to the violence and money of the streets. ultimately, hi...

And kareem lost control. >> i let my anger get the best of me. and i punched a person. and he fell and hit his head on the concrete and went into a coma. he had a fractured skull and he almost died. so it made me look at myself. i came to the conclusion that i got a problem. i got an anger problem. i got a drug problem. so i started back praying. i started back reading the koran. i started making goals for myself. >> so you started taking a proactive approach? >> right. because i knew if i didn't handle my issues, that i was going to get out with the same mentality that i came in with. and tha...