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Damien Echols at one his favorite New York haunts, Sacred Tattoo in SoHo, a tattoo parlor where he is treated as a customer, celebrity and friend.By DAVE ITZKOFFOn a Thursday afternoon walk along Canal Street, Damien Echols was reflecting on how this busy thoroughfare once nourished him in the fi...

By PATRICK CASSIDY - September 22, 2012BOURNE, Mass. (AP) — Inmates at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility may soon be taught how to bake their own cakes. Files sold separately.Barnstable County Sheriff James Cummings announced this week that his office has received a $350,000 federal gra...

By Kirk Johnson— The NY Times  -  September 27, 2012   LITTLEROCK, Wash. — The birdman of Alcatraz became famous. But the frogmen of Cedar Creek are still anonymous beyond the tiny cult world of amphibian science. For now, they say. Mat Henson, 25, serving a four-and-a-...

Colleen DeBaise October 23, 2008 Now here’s something you don’t see everyday: A program that helps convicted felons turn the talents they’ve learned in prison – such as making and peddling “hootch” (bootleg liquor) and re-selling smuggled cigarettes – into entrepreneurial skills they can use out...

November 6, 2008 The following is an excerpt from the book Think Outside the Cell: an Entrepreneur's Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated by Joseph Robinson. He began teaching prisoners about personal finance and business in 1995. He formalized a program several years ago, co-fou...

Walter Pavlo  12/07/2010 Actor Wesley Snipes is scheduled to report on December 9thto the Federal Correctional Institute McKean in Lewis Run, PA. Not a place you want to be checking into around the holidays…or any time for that matter. While Snipes has a lot on his mind, there are things that g...

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle East Bay Bureau Friday, January 12, 1996 Moreese (Pop) Bickham stepped outside his Oakland home into the bright sunlight yesterday, relishing his new-found freedom and marveling how, after spending almost half his life behind bars, faith finally brought him back to his...

Jennifer Waite,Yahoo! Contributor Network Jan 25, 2010 Since the first prison opened its gates, or rather, slammed them shut, inmates have become more and more creative in their methods of obtaining, concealing and transporting contraband. In prison, contraband refers to any item not specifica...

Rich Brown, aka " Richard Write ",Yahoo! Contributor Network Jun 17, 2008 In 2004, I went to prison. I have decided not to go back. The "why" for my incarceration is not important, but I know curiosity makes you want to know. It was for an identity theft charge which was lat...