DC Safe Surrender spokesman Willie Jones interviews with The Washington Informer

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Willie Jones, a Washington native, speaks openly on how his past drug usage and time in jail led to his becoming a spokesman for the DC Safe Surrender program during a recent sit-down with Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of The Washington Informer.