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"The whole country has gone to pot," she said.

Jones’ books — chronicling his gang life in Compton, his spiritual journey as a condemned man and recipes doable with a prison-sanctioned electric pot — make up the bulk of the collection.

“It was a hot pot and it made a lot of sense. It was very intentional. We’re coming together again and not eating in isolated bubbles. We’re all sharing from the same plate again.”

Those seeds were planted and have been nurtured into 1-gallon pots.

More recently he tried again, without the pots and pans but with characters using cellphones.