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State sets goal: 1,000 fewer inmates by ’17
By toledoblade.com- Jeff Gerritt
Published: 01/18/2016

GRAFTON, Ohio — With a violent criminal record and two prison sentences, Howard Boyd, a former gang leader and drug dealer, has become a better man in prison than he was on the streets.

“I was everything but the right thing,” he told me in Lorain Correctional Institution, where he has three years left on a seven-year sentence for multiple counts of assault and aggravated assault.

Boyd, 44, of Cleveland, is one of more than 20 trained peer mentors in the Ohio prison system.

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