1.0 link 114309 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/homeboy-industries--hope_b_114309.html The first time Father Gregory Boyle performed a funeral mass for one of the youths from the Pico Gardens and Aliso Village public housing projects in East Los Angeles was two decades ago. The young man was a casualty in a war among eight gangs in the economically depressed, mostly Latino neighborhood. After the funeral, Father Boyle, a Jesuit priest, determined that there would be more to his ministry than burying the young people in his parish. So in 1988,...

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