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Topic: Prisons

  
NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  Comment

Set for Life


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 6:14 PM

This Wednesday became Day One in ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's 24-year sentence for securities fraud, insider trading, and making false claims to auditors. According to prison officials, Skilling, 53, entered the Federal ...READ»

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From the Penthouse to the Big House

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:36 AM

David Novak did time as a white-collar crook at Eglin Federal Prison Camp, aka Club Fed. Now he advises first-time felons on how to survive life on the inside. Hey, Ken and Jeff (and Bernie and Sam and Dennis), would you like his number?READ»

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Between the Lines

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:37 AM

The stories behind this issue's storiesREAD»

Kenan Samms
CREATIVITY   |  Comment

Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

BY Dr. Alex Pattakos
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Nov 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now," the world-renown psychiatrist and author of the classic bestseller, Man's Search for Meaning, ...READ»

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Welcome to Club Fed

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:42 AM

David Novak made 11 cents an hour baking bread during his stay at Eglin Federal Prison Camp in Florida. Now he makes a nice living advising white-collar felons on what to expect on the inside. Read on. It might keep your CEO scared straight.READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS   |  1 comment

Not a Happy (Prison) Camper

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 83
Wed Mar 16, 2005 at 4:26 PM

Now that Bernard Ebbers has been convicted of fraud and other accounting shenanigans at WorldCom, the only real mystery is how much time he'll do (most likely around 25 years, according to federal sentencing guidelines) and where ...READ»

PHILANTHROPY   |  4 comments

Rising Star: Prison Entrepreneurship Program

BY Fast Company staff
Relevancy Score: 79
Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 3:08 PM

Catherine F. Rohr, CEO Houston, Texas pep.org A large percentage of inmates come to prison as seasoned entrepreneurs, having run highly successful enterprises such as drug rings and gangs. What if these influential leaders were ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  1 comment

Technology, Whiz

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 65
Wed Oct 1, 2003 at 11:13 AM

In our September issue, Scott Kirsner considered five technologies that will change the world. In the October Technology Review, science-fiction author Bruce Sterling identifies 10 technologies that "deserve to die." Among them: ...READ»

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT   |  Comment

There's Plenty for Everyone

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 62
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:31 AM

Extreme JobsREAD»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  2 comments

The Three Keys to Change

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 61
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.READ»

How to Write a Book Proposal That Sells
VIRAL LOOP CHRONICLES   |  2 comments

How to Write a Book Proposal That Sells

BY Adam Penenberg
Relevancy Score: 60
Tue Nov 17, 2009 at 11:22 PM

Assuming you have an idea for a work that a reader would plunk down $25 for, how do you get the HarperCollinses and Hyperions of the world to publish it? [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 5]READ»

GENERATIONAL EQUITY   |  Comment

About Generational Equity

BY generational equity Generational Equity
Relevancy Score: 54
Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 5:03 AM

Generational EquityREAD»

CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER   |  Comment

An Aggravating Crime

BY Daniel Wannamaker
Relevancy Score: 52
Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 1:04 PM

There is a "regular crime" then there is an "aggravated crime," but what does this mean in the scheme of the American justice system?READ»

ETHICS   |  1 comment

One Down: How Many More to Go?


Relevancy Score: 47
Thu Sep 11, 2003 at 10:13 AM

In getting ex-Enron treasurer Ben Glisan to plead guilty yesterday, the feds nailed the first Enron crook. Glisan, 37, was sentenced to five years in jail and three years of probation. How many more Enron thieves are likely to go? ...READ»

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WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE   |  1 comment

On Determining Our Leadership: Why Women Have a Responsibility to Vote

BY Julie Sue Auslander
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Oct 29, 2008 at 12:38 PM

This is the story of our grandmothers and greatgrandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but ...READ»

CAREER DEVELOPMENT   |  2 comments

The Inmate 55170-054 Show

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 47
Wed Dec 8, 2004 at 5:38 PM

It might be the fastest corporate comeback ever. Domestic diva turned Big House felon Martha Stewart is still serving a five-month sentence for obstructing justice, but she has already lined up her next job. Earlier today, Susan ...READ»

Kenan Samms
CHANGE MANAGEMENT   |  Comment

Say It Ain't So! 2 Stories of Management Run Amuck

BY Paul Glover
Relevancy Score: 46
Thu May 21, 2009 at 6:51 AM

I’m stunned – and so are they! My job sometimes requires me to see the dark underbelly of managing in the time of the WorkQuake™.  But. Fortunately, nothing any of my clients have ever done even comes close to these two ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  5 comments

Weird Twist on Internet Dating

BY Tamara Schweitzer
Relevancy Score: 45
Thu May 17, 2007 at 5:13 PM

What has happened to good old-fashioned Internet dating? As meeting significant others online has become more mainstream and accepted, I have noticed that the kind of dating websites out there are becoming more and more specialized. ...READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

Office Handbook

BY Ryan Underwood
Relevancy Score: 42
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:59 AM

When the buildings on fire, women and CEOs first.READ»

PHILANTHROPY   |  Comment

Samuel Mockbee: A Design for Life

BY Curtis Sittenfeld
Relevancy Score: 42
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:41 AM

More than a year after profiling Samuel Mockbee for our Who's Fast 2001 issue, former Fast Company writer Curtis Sittenfeld reflects on the legacy of an architecture professor who taught both compassion and craft.READ»

CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER   |  Comment

An Aggravated Crime Means Different Circumstances Apply

BY Daniel Wannamaker
Relevancy Score: 40
Thu Apr 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM

Aggravated in reference to a crime is something different.READ»

TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

This Ball Has Brains

BY Ian Wylie
Relevancy Score: 40
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:11 AM

A tracking system based on geometric calculations.READ»

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VISIONDIVISION   |  Comment

Asphalt Eyesore Transformed Into a Living Outdoor Palace

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 40
Thu Apr 2, 2009 at 5:25 AM

A grade school in Sweden had a problem: Their "playground" was really nothing more than a vast flat slab of asphalt--better suited to prison inmates pumping iron than kids lollygagging and playing tag. They wanted a ...READ»

ENTERTAINMENT   |  Comment

CEOs in the Slammer

BY Angus Loten
Relevancy Score: 37
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Street Smarts

BY Fara Warner
Relevancy Score: 34
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:48 AM

"If you can manage a bad pimp . . . and still be living," says Lateefah Simon, "you've got leadership skills you need to put to good use."READ»

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