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DeCastro was born in Hartford, Connecticut on October 17 , 1944 . He attended Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida . According to his campaign website, he is an ex-felon who spent over eighteen years in Florida's prison system for various drug-related crimes. Three years after a religious conversion in 1981 he was paroled and later was granted a full-pardon in 1994 by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles . DeCastro has been an advocate of change in the Criminal Justice System , founding a Faith-based Community Organization , an inter-denominational, criminal justice ministry to provide assistance and counseling to inmates, inmates’ families, ex-offenders, and at-risk youth. He founded the Restorative Justice Ministry Network of Florida in 1998 and Time for Freedom, Inc. in 1987. REFERENCES http://www.bernie4governor.com/index.php?pageID=about |
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