Yale Daily News

Updated: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 3:42am

City focuses on prison reentry

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Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, October 9, 2008
“Eight months was enough for me.” Hugh M. Edwards Jr., 40, a resident of Ansonia, Conn., was not always the world-renown celebrity photographer or Yale University dining hall chef that he is now. Twenty-five years ago, he was just a teenager who had finished a brief stint in jail. “I’m an ex-offender — I’m a five-time convicted felon in the early ’80s,” he said. “I’ve made mistakes, and I had [an] opportunity to have a second chance.”
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