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'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year prison sentence

Richard DeLisi was sentenced in 1989 for conspiring to traffic more than 100 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. from Jamaica. Nov. 21, 2020 By Alicia Victoria Lozano After serving more than three decades in prison for nonviolent cannabis offenses, a 71-year-old man is hoping to...

How One Entrepreneur Gives Those Coming Out Of Prison A Chance At Owning Their Own Business

November 9, 2020 By Walter Pavlo - Forbes - Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out his website or some of his other work here. In 1998, Brian Hamilton and Sarah Tourville founded one of the country’s first fintech companies, Sageworks, which developed financial analysis...

New Jersey releases more than 2,200 eligible inmates under nation's first public health crisis sentencing law

Satellite View of NJDOC - New Jersey State Prison (NJSP) November 5, 2020 In an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19, more than 2,200 prisoners in New Jersey will be released on Wednesday under a new law. The law, passed by the state legislature in September, allows for...

Lori Loughlin reports to prison to start 2-month sentence in college admissions scandal

Lori Loughlin, with husband Mossimo Giannulli outside federal court in August 2019, has reported to prison in the college admissions scandal. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) October 30, 2020 Lori Loughlin has reported to prison in the college admissions...