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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 off...

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 analys...

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 Se...

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 ad...

BY TYLER KENDALL OCTOBER 13, 2020  / CBS  When you ask Shawn Barrera-Leaf how long her 27-year-old son, Gabe, has been incarcerated, she responds with precise accuracy. "Nine-hundred and seventy-five days," she told CBS News last month. Barrera-Leaf, 57,...

Joseph Falcone, 60, formerly operated the 3G's VINO LLC, a wine and liquor distributor based in Bethpage and Farmingdale, New York October 11, 2020 A former wine and liquor distributor was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Friday for using the show "Shark ...

Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server. HomeWAV, a prison video visitation tech company, exposed thousands of phone calls between inmates and their families, but also calls with their attorneys that were supposed to be protected by attorney-client privilege. &...

Robbie Hall earned 60 cents an hour sewing masks at a factory in a women’s prison in Chino. She was hospitalized with a serious case of COVID-19 in May after an outbreak there. (Illustration by Alex Tatusian / Los Angeles Times) By Kiera Feldman - LA Times OCT. 1...

Jason Jones spent nearly 14 years in prison. After learning to code while still incarcerated, today he uses his experience to teach others how coding can improve social mobility and reduce recidivism. Jason Jones, remote instruction manager at The Last Mile. Octo...