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With all respect to Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil, there are other seasoned experts with life lessons aplenty: those who served time in a cell. Here's some hard-won and at times hilarious perspective (if not redemption) from eight high-profile inmates. Make Your Bed Beloved stoner comedian and film ...

Roy Ageloff, Mr. Pump and DumpBy MITCHEL MADDUX  -  November 28, 2011 Ladies, take note: His scheduled release date is Dec. 11, 2013. An imprisoned Wall Street trader who has admitted to running one of the biggest mob-linked stock frauds in US history is searching for a lady willing to ov...

By Nora Boustany Wednesday, March 30, 2005 In the first days, Rebiya Kadeer could not get enough of her children. She woke them up to talk to them and hugged them to make up for lost time. After spending 5 1/2 years in Chinese jails for advocating the rights of Uighurs, a Muslim minority in ...

Inmates help rehabilitate retired racehorses and end up learning valuable lessons of their own. February 2, 2007 By Dave Joseph Staff Writer OCALA — She's standing in front of this corner stall, in the cool breezeway of this wooden barn, when the retired thoroughbred Skip to the Wire begins ...

Sara Ferguson, Yahoo! Contributor Network Dec 26, 2007 Are prisons the educational system for criminals? Modern prisons have the claim that they are the most secure and humane prison. While they are more secure with the new technology is it really the best environment for criminals? A modern ...

Noah Shachtman 09.04.03 Locked in a California prison, Angelo needs a cup of coffee. Bad. But electric heaters used to make instant joe are contraband in jail. So his cellmate combines the metal tabs from a notebook binder with a couple of melted toothbrushes and some rubber bands. Soon, Ange...

Associated Press  -  Friday, September 11, 2009 A former Ohio congressman who was freed after seven years in federal prison said he was put in jeopardy behind bars because of his views. James Traficant spoke in an interview to be broadcast Thursday night on the Fox News show "On The Reco...

It's the summer of white-collar crime. But if the latest miscreants think a spell in jail means catching up on the classics and refining their backhand, they should think again. Club Fed is dead, and hard time is harder than ever. By Jennifer Senior Last December, after a fo...

by Roger Blackwell June 16, 2008 So a priest, a national rodeo champion, a Harvard M.B.A., and Richard Hatch from Survivor are discussing economic policy over stale bran flakes in prison… Last year, nearly 16 percent of all federal convictions were for white-collar crimes, as many as 12,000 i...