From the outside, Homeboy Industries' sunny offices near the Gold Line station in Los Angeles' Chinatown look about as prosperous and bustling as a gang intervention nonprofit can.
Its restaurant is filled with diners. The shelves of the bakery are loaded with treats. Young Asian-Americans, African-Americans, Latinos and others await Homeboy's many services: job placement; legal and mental health counseling; tattoo removal. Some of them will work in Homeboy's businesses...
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