By The Tribune Content Agency
PHILADELPHIA – For the last three decades, the Rev. Damone Jones has worked to build relationships with Philadelphia’s most troubled children, the teens he says “typically nobody else loves”: those charged with murder.
Several days per week, the West Philadelphia pastor visits the young men under 18 who are held in a city jail, and offers them guidance and support.
He provides the boys with clean underwear, socks, and toiletries, and through his nonprofit, the Brothahood Foundation, he hosts biweekly basketball games inside the jail that introduce them to the positive role models that many have lacked and needed in their lives. He sits with them for lunch, hires a barber to cut their hair, and attends their court hearings. In some cases, he testifies at their sentencings – often the only person willing to do that.
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