Oklahoma native Steve Lanier, former broker and business man, has turned what he considers to be a "horrible but very educational experience" into a business to provide detailed help to those facing indictment and or imprisonment. Steve's firm "White Collar Prison Consultants"
Lanier claims that he searched all over the net for this type of information before his self-surrender and was frustrated at the lack of information available. He explains, "I finally subscribed to one service I thought would be OK and was very disappointed with it. Some of the info was incorrect and even harmful. For example the document stated that you should take all of your meds with you when you surrender and this is totally false. If you take them - only take a few in each bottle because they will confiscate them and you'll never see them again. I basically gave them over $400 worth of medications and who knows what happened to them."
Lanier says that it is these kinds of details that can make the prison experience survivable and he strives to include everything he has learned in his e-book "Going to Prison and Surviving the Game." Lanier says that Prison can be a very lonely place for the White Collar offender as only about ten percent of the prison population is made up of White Collar inmates. He goes on to say that it is survivable however, and feels that people just need a good dependable road map. Steve Lanier says he furnishes that road map.
Lanier started his website approximately one year ago as a sideline enterprise and is excited at how the site has finally taken off. Lanier continues, "I love helping people, and even though there are some very bad people in prison - believe it or not there are some very good people too - Loyal friends who will help you survive and help you anyway they can. Anybody can make a mistake. I made a terrible one and have paid a terrible price. I have lost assets that took me a lifetime to acquire. I've hurt people, friends, and family and now I'm just trying to turn it all into something positive while helping others in the process."
Lanier states that he feels he provides better information than other competitive sites charging hundreds or even thousands of dollars more and his goal is to become the ultimate authority on and source for prison survival information.
"One reason I am confident of my leg up on the competition is the fact that I have a close friend and confidant who is a medical nurse in a medium-security facility and another who is a counselor in another medium facility. With the combined knowledge of all of us - we have the bases covered."
Lanier concludes, "I am a bona fide White Collar Offender with no drug or firearms charges and as a result I think I have a unique perspective about incarceration. I don't have a lot of hyped up stuff on my site and I don't try to scare the wits out of people, but I do try to tell the truth, provide the meat and potatoes of prison survival, and cover every aspect of White Collar incarceration from A to Z - including first contact with authorities, indictment, sentencing, doing time, release, the halfway house, and probation. If I can do that - I think I've done my job and I'll help a lot of folks."
