Los Angeles (CNN)He is a 62-year-old superior court judge. They are former addicts and felons. Some of them have completed prison sentences; others have lived under bridges.
All of them, however, are part of one team: the Skid Row Running Club in Los Angeles.
Twice a week, before the sun comes up, Judge Craig Mitchell runs the mile from his office at the county courthouse to The Midnight Mission, a social services organization centered in Downtown’s Skid Row — the notorious area where the city’s largest homeless population resides.