We meet every Monday.

We are a community of individuals, families and groups with white collar justice issues who have a desire to take responsibility for our actions and the wreckage we caused, make amends, and move forward in new way of life centered on hope, care, compassion, tolerance and empathy. Our experience shows us that many of us are suffering in silence with shame, remorse, and deep regret. Many of us have been stigmatized by our own families, friends and communities, and the business community. Our goal is to learn and evolve into a new spiritual way of life and to reach out in service to others. Over 550 Fellow Travelers have participated in our support group meetings.

Thank you for referring justice-impacted people and families: info@prisonist.org. Fellow Traveler volunteers handle information inquiries and intakes. 

For press/media inquiries: press@grantlaw.com. 

IMPORTANT!: If you are currently on supervised release, probation or parole, it is important that you first discuss this with your P.O. To assist in this regard, information about our ministry is available on prisonist.org.

Link for details, invitation or to make referrals...

Also, White Collar Week Podcast: An Evening with Our White Collar Support Group. 16 support group members share their stories. Link here.

We are honored to have Jim Campbell as the February speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.

Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvfu2hqjMjHNMjfclZp-uhL4P9y-l_tNaE

Order Jim's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Madoff-Talks-Uncovering-Notorious-History/dp/B0999V3WFW

“Jim, this certainly sounds strange coming from me, but I was a constant critic of Wall Street. I was a product of the corrupt culture of Wall Street.” – Bernie Madoff, in an email to Jim Campbell.

No name is more synonymous with the evil side of Wall Street than Bernie Madoff. Arrested for fraud in 2008—during the depths of the financial crisis—the 70-year old market maker, investment advisor and former chairman of the NASDAQ had orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in world history, fleecing thousands of investors across the globe to the tune of $65 billion. To this day, questions remain: Why did he do it? How did he get away with it for so long? What did his family know? Who is the elusive Bernie Madoff?

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Jim Campbell is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Business Talk with Jim Campbell and his crime show Forensic Talk with Jim Campbell. He is known for his hard-hitting interviews of leading figures from the worlds of business, politics and sports. Known for "firsts," Campbell snagged the first extensive interview with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer after his resignation; the first interview with former Tyco CEO Denis Kozlowski after his release from prison; and the first broadcast interview with former stock analyst Roomy Kahn, a government informant in one of the biggest insider trading busts in American history.

Campbell's extensive corporate, consulting and entrepreneurial business background includes roles at KPMG Consulting, Dean Witter Financial Services (now Morgan Stanley) and IBM. He is founder and president at JC Ventures, Inc., a management consulting business.

We are honored to have Scott Semple as the March speaker in our White Collar Support Group Tuesday Speaker Series.

Link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIudOyspj4iEtfz1cj03X8_YYxPgudHNT6o

Scott Semple was appointed commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Correction in March 2015. Scott joined the Connecticut Department of Correction as a front line Correction Officer in 1988 at the high security Cheshire Correctional Institution. During his tenure, he has served the agency in numerous administrative capacities, to include pre-service training coordinator, external and legislative affairs, and warden of the state’s only correctional facility dedicated for men requiring comprehensive treatment services for significant mental illness.

As commissioner, Scott has successfully implemented several performance based and progressive correctional practices designed to support both staff and incarcerated people. Most notable, they include the Emerging Adult Units known as the TRUE Unit (located in Cheshire) and the WORTH Unit (located in Niantic). He has also repurposed an existing correctional facility and other specific housing units for specialized populations to provide a therapeutic environment designed to support community reintegration. Scott has implemented numerous agency-wide staff wellness initiatives to support, respond and improve policies evolving around the complex and unique needs associated with the health and welfare of correctional professionals and their families.

On January 1, 2019, after more than 30-years of service to the agency, Scott retired from public service. He now provides professional consult through Semple Consulting, LLC on various criminal justice and correctional related endeavors.

On March 6, 2023, we will celebrate our 350th White Collar Support Group meeting (7 Years! can you believe it?). I can't express enough how humbled and grateful I am to each one of you who have joined us as members, guest speakers and supporters. You have helped lift us up out of the depths of despair and destruction to the triumph of newfound lives of community and service. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

We are marking this milestone by sharing the written reflections of our members, guests and supporters. Each week, through the spring, summer, and fall we will feature submissions on our website, in our emails, monthly newsletters, and on social media.

Every Monday evening members share our personal experience navigating our journey through the criminal justice system, and the life-long consequences. The knowledge gained, as we share our fears, struggles, insights and successes, helps foster our own individual revelations that bring forth clarity, personal growth and progress.

Your voice can help us in our mission.

We need to hear from you. Help us deliver more expansive content that will provide a blueprint for others in need of support. This is a unique opportunity for you to share with our members and with those who will, unfortunately, follow.

Your submission can take any form; a memoir, reportage, story, poem, journal excerpt or anything your imagination can muster. It should be at least 250 words, and no more than 800 words in length (no word limit for memoirs in the first-person) so long as it reflects your personal experience, your observations, or examines issues pertaining to the system that are important to you personally. Posts may be edited (e.g. length, clarity, community standards, confidentiality, title) and your name can certainly be redacted if you prefer.

If you have an idea that you would like to develop into a post, but are unsure how to proceed, let me know and we’ll set up a time for a call.

Please send submissions, inquiries, or requests for assistance to us at: info@prisonist.org.

Article on the ABA website about our panel, “Prosecuted Lawyers’ Perspective in White Collar/Nonviolent Prosecution and Reentry,” presented at the 2022 ABA Criminal Justice Section Fall Institute in November in Washington, D.C.

"Isolation. Humiliation. Loneliness. Loss. These are just a few of the many feelings and emotions that attorneys convicted of white-collar crimes grapple with before, during and after their incarcerations. But after seeing the criminal justice system from the other side, some have emerged as strong advocates for nonviolent offenders, fighting for solutions to help them rebuild their lives..."

Link to ABA article here...

Legal Action Center is turning 50 and celebrating half a century fighting discrimination, building health equity, and restoring opportunity for individuals and families impacted by the criminal legal system, addiction and/or HIV/AIDS. We hope you’ll join us as we build upon our many accomplishments over the past five decades and work to ensure another 50 years of impact building a healthier, more equitable, and just nation for all.

"I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Legal Action Center." - Jeff

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Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. (he, him, his) 

Co-founder, Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.

Greenwich CT & Nationwide

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