Lacey Rose - Forbes - May 25, 2006Two disgraced Enron executives, founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, were found guilty on all six counts and 19 of 28 counts, respectively. Both face lengthy prison terms.Where they will serve their time can be almost as important as how much ...
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Steve Thompson,Yahoo! Contributor Network Apr 2, 2008 As I've mentioned many times in other articles about legal matters, the law has yet to catch up to technology. It is extremely difficult for law enforcement, prisons and the courts to keep up with technological developments, and even more dif...
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Walter Pavlo - March 28, 2012 Madoff’s accountant, or guy who posed as his accountant, David Friehling, had his sentencing postponed from last Friday (March 23) to October 26, 2012. Friehling was arrested in March 2009, pled guilty in November of that year and was then scheduled to be sente...
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Thousands of severely ill inmates are released from the Nation’s prisons and jails each year. Helping them find ways to pay for medical and mental health care and living expenses is thought to be a crucial part of ensuring their successful return to the community. Some of these releasees may be e...
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Each year, nearly 700,000 men and women are released from prison into communities across the United States but many do not make a successful transition: two-thirds are arrested within three years and one-half are returned to prison, either for parole violations or new crimes. The Urban Institute’...
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The link is to a document created by The Sentencing Project with the source being the Bureau of Justice Statistics. It contains statistics relating to the state and federal prison system about who is incarcerated, what are the ethnicity percentages and other facts that we found interesting. The...
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Patricia Jacobus, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, June 16, 1998 DUBLIN-- Broke and burned out, social worker Patricia Clark and her 29- year-old daughter turned to bank robbery as a quick solution to their troubles. During the heist in Lemmon Valley, Nev., last year, Clark, 51, said she wo...
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July 7, 2012 There is a handy guide for nearly everything, even for federal prisons. Weighing in at 574 pages, “The Federal Prison Guidebook” is recommended reading, or at least skimming, for Nick Spano, who was supposed to begin a one-year-and-a-day prison sentence tomorrow, but on Friday was ...
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N. Mate,Yahoo! Contributor Network Aug 1, 2008 When you hear "prison food", do you think of Dickensian ladles of grey goo, poured onto the trays of zebra-striped inmates? Or do you imagine steak and lobster served al fresco at some tropical Club Fed? The truth, of course, is somewhere...