FOR 17 YEARS, Juanita Rivera-Gordon lived on the streets of Norfolk- along with a $200-a-day-crack habit.
"I was a prostitute, I was a thief and I was an unfit mother," she said. "I wanted to change the way I was living."
She got clean in late 2006, and spent six months looking for work.
"Everyone I approached for a job, I was denied," she said. "Doors were slammed in my face because I had a criminal background."
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