8/27/2012 This is an interview with Elizabeth Johnstone, who in 2007 started teaching yoga and meditation at York Correctional Institution in Niantic, Conn., a high-security women's prison. After attending a "Personal Revolution" bootcamp with Baron Baptiste, she began teachi...
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Even with her monthly visits, Makayla McGrath, 9, cannot get enough of her dad, Ricky Tisdale. This is their first time participating in the Returning Hearts celebration. It's the one time a year where family members can have physical contact at this maximum-security prison. Volunteer chaperone S...
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Dave Dahl, the bad seed. Could there be a less likely candidate to revive a 50-year-old family business? Robbie McClaran Bill Donohue Jun 1, 2009Glenn Dahl was taking an absurd risk in letting his younger brother Dave—recovering addict, six-time felon—back into his life and business The worst ...
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August 24, 2012 Severe drought has parched huge swaths of the United States this year, the first time since the mid 1950s that drought has affected so much of the nation. With so much scorched land, the center of the country could be described as a tinderbox; in recent months, severe wildfire...
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Halawa inmates turn their lives around in prison Manolo Morales 8/31/12 Getting a high school diploma is merely a rite of passage for teenagers. For ten inmates at Halawa Prison, it's a chance to turn their lives around. The prison cells at Halawa can easily destroy the hopes and dreams o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...