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...numerous public corruption investigations in Connecticut, including that of former Governor John Rowland, who resigned in 2004 and pleaded guilty to accepting gifts and vacations from contractors doing business with the state. He served a year in prison. (Read "The U.S. Prison for Iraq's Worst...
...request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. That probe led to the conviction of retired FBI agent John Connolly Jr., sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the two avoid prosecution. The investigation helped inspire the Martin Scorsese film The Departed...
Popular culture and movies would have you believe that to survive in prison, you're supposed to pick a fight right away. That's just movies. You don't want to pick a fight with anyone. If you follow directions, you can go in and come out with no problems whatsoever. I'm thinking of a guy who was well known and came out with no problems, and he was 5 ft. 2 in., 130 lb. If you start being a whiny bitch, people will take advantage of it. You start crying about your sentence and your innocence, people...
...were counseling someone with a lot of media exposure, like Burress or Bernie Madoff [who also employed a prison consultant], what would you tell them? If you're being followed in the media, well, these correctional facilities have TVs. Once they find out where you're going, they're waiting for you. You're going to be scrutinized by everyone. It's like your first day of school. Take Madoff, for example: there's a bounty on this guy. He's ruined so many lives, screwed so many people over. If he has no fear, he's more psychotic than...
...punishment after having pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol while at a resort in 2007. On Monday morning, she donned an Islamic headscarf, planted a kiss on the cheek of her 5-year-old daughter and got into a van to make the 270-km journey to a women's prison outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Instead, the van pulled over after just 200 m while officials from the Prisons Department, the Attorney General's chambers and the Islamic courts argued over the case. In the end, a decision was made to defer the caning because of the Ramadan fasting...