Duane Jackson grew up in a children’s home in Hackney and was kicked out of school at the age of 15. It was not a huge surprise, to those who knew him, that he ended up being arrested for trafficking 6,500 ecstasy tablets which resulted in a two-year prison term.
“People ask how I fell into crime. I didn’t. I grew up around it,” he says.
After nearly two years in Brixton Prison, he finished his sentence at Ford Open, where a chance encounter changed his life. A worker from the Prince’s Trust came to talk to inmates. They made it clear that many employers viewed a prison term on a young person’s CV as a black mark, but there was a solution: set up your own business.
“They caught me at just the right time. My partner was just about to have a baby
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