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Fighting for a second chance: Reentry services work to provide opportunities for ex-offenders
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Fighting for a second chance: Reentry services work to provide opportunities for ex-offenders

Martez Tolbert grew up hustling. “Even as a 3-year-old, I was selling drugs for my uncle and didn’t even know it,” he says. “He was just giving me little backpacks to go up the street.” When he was 11, Tolbert moved with his family from Detroit to Charlottesville, landing in Westhaven. He was raised by […]

mattweyrich | September 11, 2019

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Fighting for a second chance: Reentry services work to provide opportunities for ex-offenders

Martez Tolbert grew up hustling. “Even as a 3-year-old, I was selling drugs for my uncle and didn’t even know it,” he says. “He was just giving me little backpacks to go up the street.” When he was 11, Tolbert moved with his family from Detroit to Charlottesville, landing in Westhaven. He was raised by […]

mattweyrich | September 11, 2019

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