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He was told by the officer running the prison that he would be incarcerated indefinitely.

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Homeboy was founded 37 years ago to help thousands of formerly incarcerated people and gang-involved youths acquire new skills and avoid returning to jail or prison.

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The Parole Board heard Dunlop had committed other violent offences and he admitted to the panel he could have gone on to kill other people had he not been incarcerated.

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The man who wanted to be identified as G.G., is a former prisoner who was incarcerated for more than a decade on a serious crime that happened when he was a “reckless kid.”

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County prosecutors had charged that Landa-Rodriguez, while incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for illegally reentering the country, sanctioned the killing of a rival’s underling.

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