Monday, August 31, 2009
W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff Writer
Tropical Storm Danny kicked up a decent surf late Friday morning at Narragansett Town Beach, but the small group of gang members paddling on surfboards near the corner sea wall didn’t seem too fazed by the possibility of an impending storm or the dangers of the Atlantic.
The boys and young men from the streets of Providence are accustomed to danger: murders and drive-by shootings have been a regular part of their lives and all of them have spent time locked up for various crimes in the Training School in Cranston. Last week’s outing, was well … a day at the beach.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
W. Zachary Malinowski
Journal Staff WriterPROVIDENCE —
Rasheed Goode, a convicted drug dealer, was deep into his eight-year
sentence at the federal prison in Ray Brook, N.Y., when he saw a story
in The Providence Journal about an old rival from his days on the
streets of Providence.
Goode said a copy of the paper was always
floating around the prison, which is located in the Adirondacks and
home to many mobsters, bank robbers and drug dealers from Rhode Island.
Goode
read about how André “Ajay” Benton had left his criminal past behind
and had become a crusader for peace as a senior street worker at the
Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence, based in South
Providence.
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