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SEPULVEDA, Calif.--From a first-floor suite in the two-story yellow and brown building on Woodley Ave. here, Visiting Professor of Business Administration Marc J. Epstein created a small empire of businesses...
...plushy carpeted suite at 8718 Woodley Ave. is vacant now. The old occupant is elsewhere employed--teaching ethics at the Harvard Business School...
...fact, according to George Chaves, who runsthe insurance company next door to Epstein'ssuite, the professor was more than just a tenantof the yellow and brown building on Woodley Ave.He owned...
...they return with new wiles learned in local cells. Until he turned his life around 18 months ago in a drug-rehabilitation program, Lorenzo Woodley, 35, spent most of his time getting into -- and out of -- jail. Since age 19, Woodley has been arrested 14 times, all on felonies ranging from burglary to selling cocaine. Yet the longest stretch he ever spent locked up was six months in Miami's Dade County Jail. He has yet to see the inside of a prison. "I was a very manipulative person," he says with a smile. "You tell a judge...
Neither are sentences that telescope years into months. "That six months I served, that was a slap on the wrist," says Woodley, who turned himself around without going to prison. "If you get three years, you should do three years." At the same time, the jailers know that prisoners need incentives for good behavior. Florida's Singletary favors 75% sentences for those of the 53,000 prisoners in his system who "work off" days by doing construction work, cleaning parks and performing other outside tasks. It not only lessens tension within the prison but also addresses the problem of idleness...