A Boston non-profit is paying gang members in the city's poorest, most dangerous neighbourhoods to earn their high school equivalency and go to college. In the three-year pilot, College Bound Dorchester plans to keep gang members and ex-offenders on the straight and narrow by offering them a $400 weekly incentive. For comparison, having someone in prison costs the state just over $1,000 a week.

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