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Prison ceremony helps inmates sever gang ties
They renounce gang affiliation in front of others, and get support
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Zaihan Mohamed Yusof , Zaihan Mohamed Yusof
Behind the walls of Changi Prison, a ceremony takes place that is not often talked about because of the implications for its participants. It involves gang members severing all ties with the secret societies they once belonged to.
For former gang member Paul Ang, it meant having to address fellow prisoners in a prison yard with the knowledge that some of them would see him as a traitor.
