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In spite of prison etiquette's prohibition against asking about other people's time, a lot of guys either ignore or don't know t...

I spent months watching Rodney Carr's case, before a judge this week shot down his claim of actual innocence. The decision came as a blo...

While serving a twelve-year federal prison sentence for financial crimes, Chicago native Augie Ghilarducci devised and taught a reentry prog...