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Los Angeles: Small Businesses Offer Alternatives to Gang Life

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 20, 2008, NY Times Entrepreneurial Edge Small Businesses Offer Alternatives to Gang Life By JAMES FLANIGAN IN Los Angeles, a corporation that runs several small businesses is demonstrating that the training and discipline of working in a small company can make a big contribution to changing the lives of former gang members. The corporation, Homeboy Industries, runs a silkscreen business, for example, that produced revenue of $1.1 million last year from sales of custom T-shirts and other apparel for radio stations running promotions and college and private groups holding events. The business employs former gang members to make the T-shirts and uses the money to help offset the corporation?s expenses. Homeboy Silkscreen started 12 years ago in a converted warehouse under a freeway overpass near downtown Los Angeles and now has 18 employees...continue to full post

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