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Patrick Lawler Reflects on Forty Years at Youth Villages

Mar 6, 2020

In 1980, Patrick Lawler was a young probation officer in Tennessee’s Shelby County. Lawler had started his career at just 18 working with boys in a local group home, which is why his experience caught the attention of Memphis judge Kenneth Turner. Read more of the Chronicle of Social Change article here.

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