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A job and a paycheck help ex-inmates make new lives

They met on the inside, while serving time for felony raps.

Now, Evan Gabriel and Patrick Ward are partners in a start-up venture run by a Hempstead gang-intervention group.

From the seat of Struggling to Reunite Our New Generation, on West Columbia Street, the pair use a screen printing machine to print logos on T-shirts for local clients.

Gabriel, 19, got the job 18 days after...

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