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This New York Nonprofit Has Helped Young People Avoid 10,000 Years of Incarceration
Devin: What do you see as your superpower?
Angel: My power is to be in the midst of [crises] and to create a team that has the power to communicate with the community, with the police department, with the DA’s office, with judges and anybody in between.
Over the past four-plus decades, Angel Rodriguez’s Avenues for Justice (AFJ) has helped thousands of young people caught up in the justice system avoid, by my estimate, 10,000 years of incarceration. Instead, the vast majority of people who participated in the program went on to lead productive, law-abiding lives.
Those avoided years may have…
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