Have you been to prison? I hope that you did your time quietly, and made your changed your ways. Do you not know what to do with yourself now? Did you know that you have valuable knowledge about an experience that most people have no concept of? Did you know that people will pay you […]
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The Wall Street Journal: When Larry Levine helped prepare divorce papers for a client a few years ago, he got paid in mackerel. Once the case ended, he says, “I had a stack of macks.” Levine and his client were prisoners in California’s Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex. Like other federal inmates around the country, they
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Arstechnica reports that the campaign to rid our nation’s prisons of cell phones went to the next level, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is “seeking comment on technical approaches” to the problem, Commerce says. The illicit use of cell
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The Last Mile: Could the next Mark Zuckerberg be sitting in a California prison? The participants of a pioneering initiative at San Quentin correctional facility certainly hope so. The Last Mile program at San Quentin aims to educate inmates about social media, technology and entrepreneurship. Each must develop a business idea that combines technology with
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When you think of entrepreneurship in prison, you probably think trading cigarettes for pinups or jello for protection money. A new program called The Last Mile hopes to change that. The Last Mile hopes that through entrepreneurship, it can prepare convicts for employment and reduce recidivism. Considering these founders have never used the Internet or
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1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. 1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
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A recent prison inmate from Georgia has turned his time in the slammer into an entrepreneurial education. His new business: making women’s purses from newspapers. I’m not joking. Vincent joined them a few years later. He worked for Diamond Plastics in Macon and on the chassis line at Blue Bird in Fort Valley until he
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io9: Brazil’s Santa Rita do Sapucaà prison has found a new source of alternative energy: its own prisoners. The prison has offered to shave time off of prisoners’ sentences if they’ll charge batteries using special bikes and their own two legs. Under the plan, prisoners can reduce their sentences by pedaling. For every sixteen hours
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Larry Keast had every reason to be proud of himself. He had managed to bootstrap his business from something in his garage into a heavy equipment manufacturer reports Chron. However, he rarely felt at ease. He had the nagging feeling that his staff wasn’t entirely trustworthy. Then, not quite two decades ago, serendipity struck in
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California Web impostors beware: You may soon be breaking the law, even if you aren’t one of the perpetrators targeted by the state’s “e-personation” bill, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. The measure, which is awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature, carries fines of as much as $1,000 and a year in jail for anyone who poses as another
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