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LOS ANGELES — I was searching for my seat when a tall young man approached and shook my hand. "Hello, I'm Jarvis," he said in a firm voice. Jarvis Thompson, 6-foot-5, wore a well-fitted burgundy suit and looked like a polished businessman. I assumed he was a supporter of Homeboy Industries, or maybe an executive there. No, he said. He was in the program, meaning that he was in the two-year ...
LOS ANGELES — I was searching for my seat when a tall young man approached and shook my hand.
"Hello, I'm Jarvis," he said in a firm voice.
Jarvis Thompson, 6-foot-5, wore a well-fitted burgundy suit and looked like a polished businessman. I assumed he was a supporter of Homeboy Industries, or maybe an executive there.
No, he said. He was in the program, meaning that he was in the two-year academy of former gang members trying to reclaim their lives after being locked up.
"I'm actually working in security now," said Thompson, 28, whose problems began at an early age in South Los Angeles. He landed in juvenile detention and then jail, with
