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Ex-cons help ex-cons ease into life on outside.(USA)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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May 7, 2001
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Byline: Alexandra Marks Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
HARLEM, N.Y. -- The optimistic glint in Julio Medina's dark brown eyes suddenly shifts to concern. He's just learned that one of his ex-offenders spent the night in jail after jumping a subway turnstile. "What were you thinking?" he asks, incredulously.
"I had to get to a job interview. I didn't have any money," explains a shaken Thomas "Kaseen" Johnson. "This lady, she gave me 45 cents, then says, 'Why don't you just push through with me?' So I did. Then I looked up and there was a cop."
It was a setback for Mr. Johnson, who is out on parole after serving 19 years in prison on a murder ...