Keri Blakinger is a friend of our ministry and support group. She is a staff writer for The Marshall Project whose work focuses on prisons and jails. She previously covered criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, VICE, the New York Daily News and The New…
Save the Date: White Collar Support Group — 300th Meeting Online on Zoom. Monday, March 14, 2022, 7 pm ET, 6 pm CT, 5 pm MT, 4 pm PT. Open to directly justice impacted only. Referrals welcome. _________________________ Dear Fellow Travelers, Progressive Prison Ministries and St. Joseph’s Mission Church invite you to join our Confidential…
Please join us on Oct. 19, 2021, 12:45 pm, for Jeff’s plenary ethics presentation, “Pleasing Everybody Pleases Nobody,” at the 16th Annual Delaware Trust Conference, sponsored by The Delaware Bankers Association and The Delaware Financial Education Alliance. Pleasing Everybody Pleases Nobody – We are often faced with pressure to bend the rules to make customers,…
The author is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets online on Monday evenings. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment for a white collar crime, but was released for six months pending his appeal. When he lost his appeal, he was ordered to surrender to the U.S. Marshals whereupon he was…
By Peter Coutu. Reprinted from BusinessInsider.com, July 27, 2021 After nearly two decades without practicing, Jeff Grant got his law license back this May. He served over a year in prison for lying about office space to get federal relief money after 9/11. He then went to seminary and opened a ministry serving white-collar defendants.…
Congratulations to Journalist and Fellow Traveler Chandra Bozelko on winning this prestigious award. Chandra is a member of our online White Collar Support Group that meets on Zoom on Monday evenings. _________________________ “In online column writing, the winner is Chandra Bozelko of Gannett/ MoreContentNow for The Outlaw: Insider Takes on Criminal Justice, which, according to…
By Jenna Greene, Reprinted from Reuters.com, May 21, 2021 When lawyers through greed or hubris or desperation become white-collar criminals – sent to prison and disbarred – their stories often feel like car crashes. We gape at the wreckage of their lives and move on. But what happens afterwards, once they’ve done their time? How…
By Jenna Greene, Reprinted from Reuters.com, May 21, 2021 When lawyers through greed or hubris or desperation become white-collar criminals – sent to prison and disbarred – their stories often feel like car crashes. We gape at the wreckage of their lives and move on. But what happens afterwards, once they’ve done their time? How…
Chandra Bozelko writes the award-winning blog Prison Diaries. You can follow her on Twitter at @ChandraBozelko and email her at outlawcolumn@gmail.com. She is a member of our White Collar Support Group that meets online on Zoom on Monday evenings. – Jeff By Chandra Bozelko Chandra Bozelko More Content Now USA TODAY NETWORK Reprinted from The…