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"Prison consultants help inmates get good digs"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article about "a type of prison consultant increasingly popular among white-collar wrongdoers."  Here's more from an interesting piece: From Martha Stewart to Michael Vick, prison consultants are often hired by celebrities, white-collar miscreants and disgraced politicians to lobby for good prison placement, mitigate sentence length and offer crash courses in prison culture.  Last week's arrests of 44 people in a wide-ranging corruption probe that netted public officials and religious leaders in New York and New Jersey may soon produce a batch of new clients. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is aware of the work of prison consultants, but the agency treats all requests from prison consultants as it would any request from the general public, said spokeswoman Felicia Ponce...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).