Bay Area Proud: South Bay business owner offers former prisoners a purpose

At first glance, San Jose’s Valley Services looks like a typical construction recycling facility. Trucks roll in throughout the day, unloading piles of concrete and asphalt. Massive machines grind the material down, preparing it for use as landfill cover.

But beneath the dust and machinery lies a deeper kind of transformation, one that’s harder to see, but far more profound.

Daniel Perez, a manager at Valley Services, knows this transformation firsthand.

“This company changed my life,” Perez said. “It gave me the second chance nobody else would.”…

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