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Tag: Prison
Opinion
Remorse and the College Admission Scandal’s Stiffest Penalty to Date
Douglas Hodge, is the former CEO of Pimco, a company you might know about if you pay attention to your workplace retirement funds. PIMCO is one of the cornerstone investments  on the bond side, in other words, the safety play. You make your risky bets on the equity mutual funds. Bonds are like the sure thing. So of course you’d figure to see a guy like Hodge caught in the college admissions scandal.
February 11, 2020
News Roundup
Ascendium Funds New Initiative to Improve Prison Education System
Using $5 million in funding, Ascendium Education Group will launch a new initiative focused on developing more postsecondary education opportunities within the prison system. Under the program, “Optimizing Delivery Systems for Higher Education in Prison: Postsecondary Pathways for Re-Entry Transition,” three sites were given a one-year $150,000 planning grant. There will also be $800,000 of […]
December 8, 2019
News Roundup
Businessman Receives Prison Time for Role in College Admissions Scandal
Jeffrey Bizzack, a California businessman, was sentenced to two months in prison for his role in the college admissions scandal. Bizzack paid $250,000 to get his son admitted to the University of Southern California (USC) as a fake volleyball recruit. He is the 12th parent to be sentenced in the scandal and one of 10 […]
October 31, 2019
Opinion
Huffman’s Wrist Tap Should Be Harder; Think of Crystal Mason
Many people are upset about the sentencing of Felicity Huffman, the prime time star in the Operation Varsity Blues scandal. Fourteen days? That’s it?Immediately, stories of people of color like Crystal Mason surfaced.
September 22, 2019
News Roundup
Felicity Huffman Sentenced to Prison for Role in Admissions Scandal
Actress Felicity Huffman, who pleaded guilty for her role in the college admissions scandal, was sentenced to 14 days in prison on Friday. Huffman is required to report to prison by Oct. 25. The former Desperate Housewives star will also have to pay a fine of $30,000 and complete 250 hours of community service. In 2017, Huffman […]
September 13, 2019
HBCUs
Second Chance Pell Students Earn College Degree
From the medium-security prison where he’s been incarcerated since 2009, Robert M. Williams has continued to nurture a boyhood dream of designing and selling the sartorial finery he’d admired in glossy magazines and on the bodies of folks with a certain income.
December 18, 2018
Home
Scholars React to Cosby Sentence
LAS VEGAS— By Tuesday afternoon, a group of tourists and convention-goers had lined a hotel bar on the famous Strip to learn of Bill Cosby’s fate.
September 25, 2018
Latinx
Rodriguez: Election 2016 and Revisiting the New Jim & Juan Crow
As we all know, for probably three-fourths of the electorate ― between women and people of color ― the choice for president should have been a no-brainer.
November 7, 2016
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