Dear Fellow Travelers, As this year winds quickly to a close, Lynn and I want to take this moment to wish you all a most happy & healthy new year! We are especially grateful for the gift of friendship and fellowship we share with each one of you. We are miracles who have survived and are surviving the unthinkable, one day…
Reprinted from Forbes.com “I met Jeff Grant in New York’s Grand Central Station this month to talk about this issue. Grant, a convicted white collar felon, who after prison earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and is now Baptist minister and the Director of Progressive Prison Project / Innocent Spouse…
Reprinted from Forbes.com “I met Jeff Grant in New York’s Grand Central Station this month to talk about this issue. Grant, a convicted white collar felon, who after prison earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and is now Baptist minister and the Director of Progressive Prison Project / Innocent Spouse…
Reprinted from New York Magazine Life is tough for hedge-fund managers who go to prison for insider trading. There are no Bloomberg terminals, the food is terrible, and you have to associate with petty car thieves and drug dealers in the yard. But there are some things you can do to make your prison stay…
Reprinted from The Weston Forum, May 12, 2016 Spirituality wasn’t always a word in Jeff Grant’s lexicon, but after a near 14-month stint in prison for committing a white-collar crime, Grant isn’t just practicing spirituality, he’s preaching it. In 2012, Grant and his wife, Lynn Springer, co-founded an outreach ministry called Progressive Prison Project/Innocent Spouse…
Inc.: What Successful Entrepreneurs and Successful Criminals Have in Common, By Tim Askew The distance between the criminal and the successful entrepreneur is not so very far. ____________________ I found this line in a recent John Grisham bestseller. “Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.” The distance between the criminal…
Reverend Jeff Grant wrote a powerful post on his blog, Prisonist.org, announcing that the Progressive Prison Project/Innocent Spouse & Children Project in Greenwich, CT, for the first time in United States history, obtained a recovery from a U.S. Receiver for an innocent spouse after her personal assets had been frozen by federal authorities. The seizure…
Years ago, Rev. Jeff Grant spent 14 months in Federal prison for a white-collar crime. Today, Jeff is the Director of Progressive Prison Ministries, the the first ministry in the United States created to provide counseling, advocacy and resources to individuals and families with white-collar and other nonviolent incarceration struggles. The organization, founded by Grant…
Shame. Ostracism. A shift to food stamps. This is a harsh reality for the families of white-collar criminals — hedge fund managers convicted of insider trading, or bankers nabbed for embezzlement. Sure, these are some of the world’s most privileged people, and incarceration certainly ruins lives across the economic spectrum. So these “one-percenters” garner no…
Shame. Ostracism. A shift to food stamps. This is a harsh reality for the families of white-collar criminals — hedge fund managers convicted of insider trading, or bankers nabbed for embezzlement. Sure, these are some of the world’s most privileged people, and incarceration certainly ruins lives across the economic spectrum. So these “one-percenters” garner no…