BEFORE RELEASE IS BETTER THAN AFTER RELEASE After 6 years of training released inmates after they returned back to their communities “how to go into business for themselves,” we discovered something. Hundreds of students over the years mentioned that they wished that they could have started this training six months to a year before being…
For those going through a Federal White Collar prosecution, the difficulty in obtaining an accurate sentencing landscape makes good decision making especially precarious. Certainly, it is one of the recurring topics in our Monday evening online White Collar Support Group meetings – lots of questions, not so many answers. This Forbes article by Brian Jacobs,…
For those going through a Federal White Collar prosecution, the difficulty in obtaining an accurate sentencing landscape makes good decision making especially precarious. Certainly, it is one of the recurring topics in our Monday evening online White Collar Support Group meetings – lots of questions, not so many answers. This Forbes article by Brian Jacobs,…
We were prominently mentioned in this article about our friend Chip Skowron. Please feel free to email your thoughts and comments to me at jgrant@prisonist.org. “Jeff Grant, the lawyer turned minister who counseled Skowron before he entered prison, [is co-founder of Progressive Prison Ministries (prisonist.org), the world’s first ministry supporting the white collar criminal justice/economy…
Kathy Morse is a member of our online White Collar Support Group that meets on Monday evenings. Caution: her story is horrifying and very graphic. I admire her courage in sharing it to bring truth, awareness and light to the darkest of conditions in prison; conditions no person should have to live through. – Jeff…
In light of recent prosecutions against some unscrupulous prison consultants, I researched my files and found this letter I sent to the prison consultant that I had hired when I was at my most scared and vulnerable. I never heard from him again and never received the return of the money I had paid him…
Barbara (Basia) Skudrzyk reported to the Satellite Camp at Greenville Federal Correctional Institution on June 3, 2019 to serve a thirty-three month sentence. She has been a member of our White Collar Support Group for about nine months, and will be writing letters regularly for publication on prisonist.org. Dear Jeff, Thank you for staying in…
Barbara (Basia) Skudrzyk reported to the Satellite Camp at Greenville Federal Correctional Institution on June 3, 2019 to serve a thirty-three month sentence. She has been a member of our White Collar Support Group for about nine months, and will be writing letters regularly for publication on prisonist.org. Dear Jeff, Thank you for staying in…
Jeff talks criminal justice reform, white collar ministry, overcoming opioid addiction and devotion to service with Toni Quest and Peter Elvidge on the Seeing Beneath the Surface Podcast, Episode 60. Listen on YouTube: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seeing-beneath-the-surface/id1274257837 Listen on Facebook:
In 1981, the AIDS epidemic began, and I was living in ground zero, New York City. I had come out at a very young and precocious 16, and had enjoyed an extremely hedonistic life when I went to college at NYU – lots of drinking and sleeping around, all while still managing to do well in film school. At 21, the future was extremely…