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Popular New Snack Born Behind Bars
Loaded on Aug. 2, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2016, page 17
Filed under:
Prison Labor,
Food,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Release and Reentry.
Location:
California.
In 2009, Seth Sundberg was sentenced to five years for a fraudulent $5 million tax refund. The former pro basketball player had managed a California mortgage office and went from a comfortable living in the real estate industry to earning $5.25 a month in the prison kitchen. While working in ...
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