You're Just Buying Time, Isn't It?

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"I was cheating time, is what iwasdon it's sometimes called circular kitin and you can't do it that easily any more. Banks have changed the way they oper checks are now cleared with electronic imaging," says Neil white. "The federal government sentences you based on how much in bank fraud anyway, how much a financial institution lost", he adds. He surrendered at a minimum security prison in carisville, louisville, 19 minutes from his home.

In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But white collar criminals weren't the only people living there, and the other people inside had basically been forgotten about by the outside world, some of them for decades.

Learn more about Neil White’s time at Carville in his memoir, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts.

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