The Washington Post, February 18th, 2007
The day after he got out of the juvenile detention facility outside of Racine, Wis., Caron Butler applied for a job at Burger King. Drops of grease splattered his forehead as he transferred the Whoppers from the grill to the boiler-steamer, he recalled, when his friends walked in and began teasing the young fry cook. Little Greg. Junior. Black Rob. "They were like, 'Man, we about to get back on the block,' " Butler said. "They had just got out of jail." He told them he was working, that he had a steady check coming in every two weeks. "I'm going to school, I'm in the newspaper now playing go...
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