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Second Chance Pays Off in Palm Beach
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Driving Miss Daisy was in the theaters, the Berlin Wall was coming down, and phones still had cords when Talmedge Hayes disappeared from the world. 
Just a teenager in the late ’80s, the fatherless youth had fallen in with criminals in his Tampa, Fla., housing project and was arrested for armed robbery. The sentence was severe: life without parole.
Hayes was one of many black teens discarded by the system, abandoned forever to prison, for a crime that might have gotten a white defendant a more lenient sentence. He could have let incarceration consume him and become just another bitter, violent inmate, racked with despair. Instead he chose a different path, one of self improvement and hope. He decided to learn a trade.  ....

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