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Defy Ventures helped Maliki Cottrell, who served time for carrying a gun without a permit, build a trash-hauling business.Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesBy JESSICA WEISBERG   September 23, 2012 As a heroin dealer in Rhode Island, Jose Vasquez made $2,000 a day. He said he had a way with hi...

By Corey Kilgannon   August 17, 2012 It is said that older people like to enumerate their various health woes, and apparently aging Yippies are no different. Dana Beal, 65, a founder of the Youth International Party in the 1960s and a longtime marijuana and medical-marijuana advocate, has b...

By TAMAR LEWIN  -  November 16, 2001 Inmates who receive schooling -- through vocational training or classes at the high school or college level -- are far less likely to return to prison within three years of their release, according to a study for the Department of Education. The study, which...

Dementia Behind Bars:The California Men’s Colony is using convicted killers to care for inmates who can no longer care for themselves.THE VANISHING MINDThe Vanishing MindBy Pam Belluck  February 25, 2012SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Secel Montgomery Sr. stabbed a woman in the stomach, chest and throa...

Inc. staff write Patrick Sauer recently profiled Benecard Services, based in Lawrenceville, N.J., a company where the game of chess has become a large part of its culture. Here, he shares his notes on a recent outing to a N.J. state prison where the company sponsors a chess tournament twice a yea...

By Katherine Burton October 18, 2011 BusinessWeek Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Danielle Chiesi won’t need her pearls and stiletto heels for a while. For the next 30 months, it’ll be khakis and work boots. Chiesi, the 45-year-old femme fatale analyst who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the bi...

Keith Packer, the former commercial general manager for British Airways World Cargo, speaks during an interview in London. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/BloombergBy Erik Larson - Oct 22, 2010 BusinessWeek When Keith H. Packer returned to the U.K. last year after eight months in prison in Pensaco...

Don't Waste Your MoneySheriff's departments across the US are warning that a new version of an old scam is popping up everywhere.It concerns a phone scam. But this time it's no longer just the old kitchen phone ringing at dinner time: it could be your iPhone or Android.Cell Phone RingingJalaine B...

By Sandy Fitzgerald Monday May 14, 2012 Prisoners behind bars are cut off from the rest of the world, except for the occasional visit and some mailed-in letters. But the same tools people "on the outside" use to communicate with each other -- cell phones and tablets -- are finding th...