He probably didn't realize it at the time, but Sanford Coley's life took a dramatic turn in the mid-1990s.
That's when Coley, who is now 66, got a job at CleanCraft, a commercial cleaning company in Rochester. He had already interviewed for 10 or 15 other jobs before this one came through.
"Being an ex-felon," he said, "other companies just looked over me, and it was tough."