CHICAGO IDEAS WEEK TO END VIOLENCE
Joseph Jones could have been in prison. At 14 years old, with an absent father and a mother in a coma, Jones shouldered the responsibility of taking care of a younger brother and a younger sister, washing cars in his West Englewood neighborhood for $10 a day to keep them fed. He coped with life the only way he knew how: joining a gang and selling drugs. “I didn’t know this is wrong,” said Jones, now 18. “A cop could have pulled me over, and I wouldn’t have known this is wrong.” But Jones isn’t in prison today. Click here to read more The Chicago Tribune