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    There’s Hope at Homeboy

    Sep 18, 2018 2 minutes

    is about a lethal absence of hope,” Father Greg Boyle says. “Nobody has ever met a hopeful kid who joined a gang.” Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that provides employment opportunities for ex-gang members and the formerly incarcerated. Boyle says Homeboy is

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