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Newspaper
Matteson Star
Location
Matteson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1998
Page
7
A Chicago area program inside Rich South High School stories youths pulled into crime and drugs. Survivors recount turning points including enlistment, car theft, a shootout, and paralysis. They credit rehab, faith, and peer support with choosing a safer path and guiding younger students away from gangs.
At Cook County Oak Forest Hospital a violence prevention effort uses ex-offenders in wheelchairs to speak to inner city students. Since 1996 the program has sent speakers to high schools for three years, encouraging youths to leave gangs. A Rich South High student credited the talks with his intent to reform after a morning of psychologists social workers and prosecutors.
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