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By Steve Yoder, The Fiscal Times March 27, 2012 After Cedric Hornbuckle, age 37, served eight years in prison for drug dealing, he knew finding a job in the real world would be difficult—studies have found that any criminal record can cut someone’s chance of finding a job by nearly one half. So...

Fortune's Peter Elkind explains why the very people Enron's former CFO Andrew Fastow helped defraud helped him to a lighter sentence.Andrew Fastow is serving six years in Oakdale, La. November 27 2006 (Fortune Magazine) -- Howls are still being heard about the sentence granted Enron's forme...

By Jeralyn  -  Wed Dec 14, 2011 The judge presiding over Rod Blagojevich's criminal case has agreed to recommend the Bureau of Prisons admit him to RDAP - the residential drug and alcohol program that allows inmates who successfully complete it to cut up to a year off their prison terms. The ne...

April 14, 2010 The federal residential drug abuse program (RDAP) is rarely discussed and, even more rarely the subject of litigation. For this reason (and others), we found intriguing today's Ninth Circuit panel ruling in Mora-Meraz v. Thomas, No. 09-35413 (9th Cir. Apr. 14, 2010). Her...

September 24, 2007 Here are three lessons we can learn from the case of crooked cop William Phillips, who is to be paroled in November after spending nearly 40 years in jail. Lesson One: Beware of testifying before an outside agency investigating the police department if there is evil in your p...

Halfway House Time / RDAP If you are sentenced to federal prison, the last 10% of your sentence will be spent in a half-way house if your paperwork is submitted on time by the staff at your facility and the halfway house has a bed for you. The Second Chance Act states that you can ask for up to ...

By Marina Alvarez - 2003 From PositiveWords I've always loved helping others. From a young age, I had hopes and dreams of finishing school to become a social worker. In school, I was popular, got good grades, made the honor roll and was voted valedictorian of my junior high school graduating clas...

Steve Thompson,Yahoo! Contributor Network Apr 2, 2008 I'd imagine that jail is the last place you'd want to start a substance abuse treatment program, but some people don't have the option. When you find yourself incarcerated for a drug-related offense, you no longer have access to the substance...

Saturday, July 21, 2007 A big story in North Carolina this year has been the downfall of Jim Black, former four-term House Speaker. Black, 72, is from Matthews, a suburb of Charlotte, so he doesn't live far from me and the story has, of course, been large here. In Feb, he pled guilty to one c...