G-dog

DVD 2013

From Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock. Father Greg Boyle, a white Jesuit priest, has spent some 25 years in the toughest part of East LA, offering jobs not jail, to tough, street-smart, and amazingly sweet young people, all former gang members. Father Boyle is a charismatic visionary, but he's made the dream real: his Homeboy Industries has become the largest, most successful gang intervention and rehab program in the U.S. and an inspirati...

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Boyle, Greg

Church work with Hispanic Americans California East Los Angeles

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Gang members Rehabilitation California East Los Angeles

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Hispanic American neighborhoods California East Los Angeles Social conditions

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