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Fall From A Comfortable Life
- Neil White ran a magazine empire and used circular check kiting to hide cash flow problems until an FDIC audit exposed him.
- He was convicted and sentenced to 18 months because he couldn't cover the losses, not merely for mismanagement.
Prison At A Leprosy Colony
- Neil surrendered to a minimum-security prison located inside the last continental U.S. leprosy colony, Carville.
- He immediately feared contagion when he saw patients missing fingers and disfigured by Hansen's disease.
A Cost-Driven Convergence
- Dr. John Duffy repurposed empty patient rooms at Carville for federal inmates as a cost-saving move.
- That decision created a unique and tense convergence of aging patients and criminal inmates under one roof.