This judge's LA running club helps Skid Row's homeless rebuild their lives
Los Angeles 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.
Meet The Midnight Runners 03:04CNN's Allie Torgan spoke with Mitchell about his work. Below is an edited version of their conversation. CNN: Did you ever imagine taking on this role? Judge Craig Mitchell: When I went down to The Midnight Mission that one afternoon with the parolee, I had absolutely no idea that my life would play out this way. I was just a volunteer coming to The Midnight Mission. I didn't know what I was doing.
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