Criminal Sentencing and Punishment


An Unlikely Place to Nurture the Entrepreneurial Spirit? Jail.

In August 2009 Jeff Smith, then a Missouri State Senator, pled guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and resigned his seat. Five months later he went to federal prison–and found it bustling with resourceful men with shrewd business instincts.

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Some Good Earners

Preparing prison inmates to start businesses upon their release

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Recent Articles about Criminal Sentencing and Punishment

Prison Entrepreneurship Guide

These programs offer prisoners around the country an opportunity to start new lives through entrepreneurship.  Read more

Paris Hilton Goes to Jail

Confounding the paparrazzi who hoped to get a picture of America's most celebrated jail bird, Paris Hilton surrendered to prison officials on Sunday eveni...  Read more

Bill Pits Prisons Against Small Businesses

A measure passed by the House would allow businesses to compete for contracts once reserved for prison labor.  Read more

Hazardous Waste Threatens CEOs

Accelerating EPA small business prosecution the expense of compliance.  Read more

Captive Company

Customer service, quality control, employee morale -- business is a whole different ball game when you're running a prison for profit  Read more

Doing Business Behind Bars

With its carpeted cubicles and computer terminals, Stillwater Data Processing Systems Inc. looks like any other modern, high-technology office. At 5 p.m....  Read more

'Spam King' Gets Four Years

The head of a marketing firm that sent millions of spam e-mails is convicted of mail fraud.  Read more

How I Handled Myself During a Prison Riot

Jerry B. Heftler showed a new client what he was capable of by jumping into action during a prison riot.  Read more

Helping Ex-Felons Become Entrepreneurs

For his tireless work training the less fortunate - including ex-felons - to become entrepreneurs, Todd Pemberton receives an award.  Read more

Ohio Coin Dealer Gets 18 Years

Thomas Noe, the rare coin entrepreneur convicted of stealing as much as $13.7 million from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, was Read more

Barring Prison Labor

Your top rival? He may well be a guy serving 10 to 20.  Read more

Dispatches from the Web Economy

Quick takes on the Web economy's impact on the business world.  Read more

Do the Right Thing -- or Else

New federal ethics rules apply to all companies, regardless of size.  Read more

Survival Story

Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Ping Fu discusses her software firm Geomagic. Having survived Chinese prisons, she came to America and built Geomag...  Watch video

Guilty Plea in SBA Loan Scam

A Detroit financier this week pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and making false statements in acquiring more than $70 million in fraudulent loans from t...  Read more

Holdup or Holdout

Louisiana State penitentiary inmates produce an award-winning publication.  Read more

High Concept: The Pen and Automated Teller

A new network of ATM-like touch-screen kiosks automates routine probation interviews for convicted felons.  Read more

Data Security Breaches from the Inside

The former IT director of LifeGift Organ Donation Center in Texas has just been sentenced to 2 years in prison for intentionally deleting organ donation ...  Read more

A Shot of Self-Worth Behind Bars

Inc. staff write Patrick Sauer recently profiled Benecard Services, based in Lawrenceville, N.J., a company where the game of chess has become a large ...  Read more

Carl Rupp: Self-Made in America

Carl Rupp lost it all when his drug addiction landed him in prison. Well, almost everything--he never lost his determination to be a successful entrepreneur....  Read more

Things I Can't Live Without: Anne-Marie Faiola

Showing up to work in the right outfit makes the Segway a necessity.  Read more

The Business Year That Was

As the earth completes yet another revolution around the sun, it's time for reflection. What did you learn about the state of the entrepreneurial union in 2003?  Read more

CEO Passions: Teaching Prisoners

Brian Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Sageworks, teaches entrepreneurship to prisoners.  Read more

When Bad Management Becomes Criminal

What was once thought of as a "bad management decision" can now land executives in jail.  Read more

Dispatches from the Web Economy

Quick takes on the Web economy's impact on the business world.  Read more

Let's Make a Deal

Meet the IRS halfway when trouble's afoot Here's some comforting news if you're in hot water with the IRS: not all transgression...  Read more

Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money "Tell Ahu-kinum: Immediately after you left for the trip, Imgur-Sin arrived here and claimed: "He owes me one-third of...  Read more

Running Alabama Like A Business

He trained for his job by lifting his barbell company to $43 million in sales.  Read more

Finding Jobs for Ex-offenders

How Sweet Beginnings offers a second chance to those who need it most  Read more

The Return of Martha Stewart

August 30, 2005 --After five months in prison, and another five months of home detention, Martha Stewart will resume working fulltime on W...  Read more

The Legislative Front

Because the federal government has been so slow to act, 21 states have passed their own computer crime legislation, most of it related to defining computer c...  Read more

House Of Corrections

Your correction on S corporations was classic! I'm sure we all learned a valuable lesson. Thanks. EDITOR-NOTE: In our September issue, you m...  Read more

The Privacy Time Bomb

You're sitting on a privacy time bomb. Here's how to defuse it.  Read more

Martha: Alone with Her Thoughts

The U.S. economy got great news today: Martha Stewart received a sentence of five months in prison and five months home confinement. This is going spark a...  Read more

Better Still

I started working with my dad at age 15. Now, at 34, I look back on those years and want to say thanks for believing in me and giving me your skills and ...  Read more

Ask Inc.

Q As a convicted felon, will I find it difficult to take out loans and start a business? When I get out of jail, I'd li...  Read more

Guest Speaker: Worshiping at Work

Bringing religion into your company can be a test of faith--but not in the way you might expect.  Read more

Learning to Love Whistleblowers

Some businesses that once feared whistleblowers are now giving workers new ways to report wrongdoing.  Read more

The Case for Founders; CEOs as TV Stars

Zuckerberg: founders make better CEOs . Henry Blodget of Business Insider has posted a Read more

House Of Corrections

Why not do a column with Forde, dealing with his insight into white-collar crime, his views on the criminal mind, his perspective of life on the outside a...  Read more

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