May 19, 2015 | News Article
Rahsaan Thomas is a 44-year-old inmate at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. He has served 15 years of a 15-to-life sentence for 2nd-degree murder, with a 35-year enhancement for using a firearm. He shot and killed two armed men who he says were stealing...
Mar 21, 2015 | News Article
Prison is perhaps the last place anyone would expect to learn about investing and money management. But at San Quentin Prison, Curtis Carroll’s class is a hot item. The 36-year-old has gained a reputation for his stock-picking prowess. He’s even earned the...
Feb 16, 2015 | News Article
A Sri Lankan-born venture capitalist wants to be the “brown Buffett.” Rapper and entrepreneur Jay Z called himself the “black Warren Buffett.” There are Buffetts of Tanzania, India and Spain—and a convicted murderer known as the “Oracle of San Quentin” because of his...
Dec 17, 2014 | News Article
Re-entering society after release weighs heavily on the minds of those currently serving time, which is why there are groups available to help make the transition easier. “If they try to throw you a curve, what should you do? Don’t get frazzled, just move on to the...
Dec 9, 2014 | News Article
The inmates at San Quentin are often highly intelligent–and usually sociopathic. Due to its racial and gang related violence, the residents refer to California’s oldest prison as “The Arena.” But aided by 4,000 volunteers, many prisoners try to improve themselves by...
Dec 5, 2014 | News Article
“I’ve made loads of money in the stock market, for a whole bunch of people,” said Curtis Carroll. The San Quentin inmate was 17 when he killed a man during an Oakland robbery. Now at 36, Carroll is developing a different kind of reputation. “He has a reputation of...
Jul 14, 2014 | News Article
A MarketWatch (Wall Street Journal) article about an inmate at California’s San Quentin prison bears similarities with lead character Andy Dufresne in the Stephen King novella, “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” and the hit movie the “The Shawshank Redemption.”...
Jul 13, 2014 | News Article
Every day, Curtis Carroll dons blue, state-issue jail garb. Every night, he sleeps in a cement cell. At 35, he has spent his entire adulthood behind bars, and there’s a possibility he’ll never leave: He’s serving a sentence of 54 years to life, for murder.MarketWatch...
Jul 13, 2013 | News Article
I have a bizarre quiz for you Outsiders to take today. I’m going to give you a quote, and you have to guess who said it. Was it A) Warren Buffett or B) A convicted felon serving time for murder? You’d think it’d be pretty cut-and-dried. How in the...
