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Putting Felons to Work

By Michael Blankenship

Stephanie Harris' management and sales skills helped her earn $3,000 for just six or seven hours of work on a "good" day. Over 10 years, Harris says, she earned about half a million dollars. But her job took away her freedom. Harris was sentenced in 2007 to eight years in prison for selling heroin. Since she was a teen, Harris has been in and out of correctional institutions for various felony charges ? mostly for selling heroin and crack cocaine. Christine Foote, with her long dusty-brown hair and black-rimmed glasses, looks as though she should be working in an office. And she had been working as an administrative assistant when she was sentenced to 10 years for stealing more than $68,000 from her employer, a Salisbury, Md., roofing company...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on March 16, 2010 (boomark / email).