One was forced to both change dialect and pay SEK 650,000 to his former "brothers".
Others have been forced to learn everything from how to book a laundry room and use a stove to how to stop speaking "suburban Swedish".
The stories come from men who have received help from Fryshuset's defector business Passus.
Because they are usually men: out of 43 people who have passed the system, there is only one woman.
This is despite the fact that women today are taking an increasing place in criminal gangs, something that has been confirmed by research reports, among other things.
"Has an incredibly big role"
Peter Svensson, operations manager for Passus and former leading member of the Wolfpack Brotherhood, is one of those who want to warn of the development.
- We are not talking about the role of women in criminal gangs.
I feel that this is something we forget, at the same time as we get indications that women's crime in the gangs is increasing, he says and continues:
- They are not visible but have an incredibly big role.
How should society reach women who are in criminal environments, are special efforts needed?
- One difficulty is that women never identify as one in the gang, regardless of whether they are members of Hells Angels, Bandidos or any of the criminal networks.
They are never part of the gang and are always at the bottom of the hierarchy, but at the same time everything - the criminal thought pattern - is normalized for them.
It can often be about hiding drugs or weapons.
- The women are never part of the network, but they perform work for the network.
And that is logical.
Should a guy in an Adidas suit and Gucci hat wear three kilos of cocaine or should a dressed-up girl have the cocaine in her Louis Vuitton bag?
Who is most at risk of stopping?
"Have often been subjected to sexual violence"
According to Peter Svensson, the normalization of crime looks the same regardless of gender.
- The difference is that women have often been exposed to sexual violence.