Reprinted from Forbes.com, Jan. 28, 2019 The prison consulting business has been plagued by gimmicks and false promises. Now a federal indictment in Connecticut could blow the lid off of a number of scammers that have taken advantage of defendants and their families. US Attorneys in Connecticut have indicted three people who worked at RDAP…
Do you have a loved one behind bars in Connecticut prisons? Do you find that even keeping in touch with your imprisoned loved one is too expensive? Were you once in a Connecticut prison? Was calling your family and friends very expensive? House Representatives Robyn Porter, Josh Elliott and I are working to make calls…
by Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Feb. 6, 2019 Jeffrey Deskovic was playing whiffleball with a friend the night his high school classmate was raped and murdered.Despite DNA evidence to the contrary, the state still thought he did it. So did a jury. Deskovic spent 16 years behind bars, until the actual killer’s…
by Thomas Breen I Reprinted from the New Haven Independent I | Jan 23, 2019 (3) Comments | Post a Comment | E-mail the Author Peter Henning (center) with WNHH hosts Jeff Grant and Babz Rawls-Ivy. The government will always prioritize going after insider traders over subprime mortgage lenders. Even if the latter precipitate a…
Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Jan. 3, 2019, by Tom Breen Ban the box, not just for job applications, but for housing applications, too. A criminal justice reform group plans to pitch that idea to the state legislature this coming session as part of recommendations on how to create housing opportunities for Connecticut’s recently incarcerated.…
We invite you to share your holiday messages of experience, strength, love, hope and faith. Please email them to me at jgrant@prisonist.org and I will post them on our blog at prisonist.org/prisonist-the-blog and email them to our families, friends, neighbors, colleagues and fellows. Please feel free to forward them to anyone who is in need…
We invite you to share your holiday messages of experience, strength, love, hope and faith. Please email them to me at jgrant@prisonist.org and I will post them on our blog at prisonist.org/prisonist-the-blog and email them to our families, friends, neighbors, colleagues and fellows. Please feel free to forward them to anyone who is in need…
I was so moved by this email I received today from a ministee in Seattle that I asked his permission to republish it. It speaks of the difficulties he has faced since returning from prison in getting a job, providing for his family, and feeling like a whole person. Please read it yourself and feel…
By Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Dec. 13, 2018 Glenn E. Martin spent eight years of his youth sticking up jewelry stores. He spent nearly four years of his adulthood raising tens of millions of dollars to help end mass incarceration. In Martin’s mind, those two phases of his life are not as…
By Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Dec. 13, 2018 Glenn E. Martin spent eight years of his youth sticking up jewelry stores. He spent nearly four years of his adulthood raising tens of millions of dollars to help end mass incarceration. In Martin’s mind, those two phases of his life are not as…