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It used to be that you could get three meals a day and a roof over your head, as long as you committed a felony. Well, the days of being paid to pound out license plates are coming to a close. Now, any cash you make in the joint goes back to the joint. Local governments across the United States...

With the perp walk becoming a standard Wall Street entertainment, I suppose the business plan of the company Wall Street Prison Consultants is sound. As its name suggests, the firm specializes in helping those charged with fraud, insider trading, anti-trust violations and the like fight the...

At disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's sentencing on Monday, Judge Denny Chin described his crimes as "extraordinarily evil." If legal experts are right in their assessment of where Madoff is likely to serve his time, he'll have the chance to meet plenty of other people whose misdeeds fit that...

The food must be good in Taiwan's prisons.About four months after a jobless ex-con asked police to return him to prison so he could have a meal, another homeless and unemployed ex-con in Taiwan was recently arrested so he could have a prison lunch, according to a Reuters story.The man stole a box...

For most people, the chance to move from a decrepit and unsafe home to a spanking new, state-of-the-art home, would be a dream come true. But tell that to the inmates at San Quentin prison. For them it's a nightmare proposition. In early May, Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, floated...

Oh, to be Dutch.In the Netherlands, prostitution and marijuana are legal, Heineken is the local brew, and Amsterdam is a bike-able international city with a huge selection of fine cheeses.And now comes the news from the Dutch justice ministry that the crime rate is so low that it will close eight...

I've heard of former prison inmates committing crimes so they can go back to prison for medical care, but going back for the food is something else. A jobless Taiwan man who has been out of prison for two years asked police to send him back to prison so he could eat, according to a Reuters...

Sheriff Greg Bartlett who was in charge of the Morgan County, Alabama jail found a creative way to cut the facility's budget: Stop feeding the inmates. The jail had a budget of $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner, but the sheriff decided cost-cutting measures were in order. He decided to...

Recently, former NFL start Michael Vick filed for bankruptcy while sitting in a Kansas prison. In 2006, Vick made almost $15 million. Now he makes next to nothing working in prison. He bankruptcy filing shows $16 million in assets, but over $20 million owed to creditors. Vick wasted a whopping $18...

I've always been fascinated with how underground economies work due in part to my addiction to reading any story about prison escapes. I can clearly remember the mastermind doling out packs of cigarettes to keep someone quiet or acquire a critical piece of the escape plan. Indeed cigarettes were...