when your son was incarcerated, he continued meeting people who knew you and hearing stories abouyou. other inmates and staff talked about it. was that theeginning of the organization? >> so i kind of thought reaching out to the yunger population, i noticed a whole lot of young guys coming in jailn that d have any direction and so they started following me and actually it was the chaplain at the correctional institutionth she told me i was the new joshua and iidn't know anything about the bible so i had to goread it and it was when moses died joshua was the one that took over anded the people and she told me that people were following me and i had toe decide wh did i want to leave them. and so that's kind of what made me just start reaching out to the guys and maki sure that if you were going to follow me, i would lead you in the rig direction. >> wow. the national association for the advanceme of returning citizens is your group and what do you do? >> we educate, mobilize so making them aware. a lot of them didn't even know they could vote. d.c. being a unique city, they come home to

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