How to survive in jail for dummies
An ex-con from New York has gone into business teaching Wall Street executives and other white-collar criminals how to survive jail. For $200 an hour, Steven Oberfest, 41, teaches convicted swindlers and frauds the fine points of jailhouse etiquette and lingo, how to keep their sanity behind bars, and some basic self-defense techniques. “These guys have never been in a fight in their lives,” said Oberfest, who once served time himself, “and now they’re entering a world where anything can happen.”
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