Welcome to house of second chances

Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, the job creating project of an Irish-American priest, offers hope and a second chance to hundreds of ex-convicts and even the former boss of a large construction company.

Welcome to house of second chances

Douglas McGray looks behind the scenes of this inspiring movement

ONE Sunday late last summer, just after Mass, Fr Gregory Boyle took a drive through Boyle Heights, the East Los Angeles neighbourhood where he has lived for 26 years.

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