10 criminals who turned their lives around
In this article, we talked about people who change their life give us a lesson. Who came from Dark to light. Such as, Daniel Manville, Kevin Mitnick, Charles Wendell Colson, and more...
Michigan College Manville pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter he was helping a friend get back drugs and money that had been stolen but during the siege of the alleged thief
two people unexpectedly walked in Manville chloroformed one of them but they had a bad reaction to the chemical and died Manville served almost four years in prison as a
result but during his time in prison Manville turned things around he continued his studies and managed to obtain two college degrees after his parole he passed the bar exams
in Michigan and Washington throughout his legal career Manville strive to improve the prison system and would represent inmates and prison guards in civil cases today Manville teaches law at
Michigan State University
13 and allegedly hacked the North American Aerospace Defense Command computer in 1981 at the age of just seventeen over the next ten years Mitnick continued to hack into corporate
organizations gaining access to some of the most well-guarded systems including those of Motorola net comp and Nokia this made him the first hacker to appear on the most-wanted
list of the FBI and in 1995 he was charged with 14 counts of fraud and served five years in prison but after his time in prison Mitnick reinvented himself
as a security consultant and ethical hacker selling his skills under his trading name Linux security as a tester to help companies discover loopholes in their security systems he is
now a trusted security consultant to fortune 500 companies and governments all over the world
Charles Wendell Colson was an aide to America President Richard
Nixon during the 1970s but in 1974 he was tried and convicted for his part in the notorious Watergate scandal in a cover-up to hide the activities that took place
to destroy the credibility of pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg he served seven months in prison in his memoir born again and Colson wrote I found myself increasingly drawn to the
the idea that God had put me in prison for a purpose and that I should do something for those I had left behind Carlson had a religious awakening during his
sentence and left with a new mission he founded Prison Fellowship in 1976 which has become America's biggest Christian nonprofit organization serving prisoners former prisoners and their families and is
a leading advocate for criminal justice reform in recognition for his work in the field Colson was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize for progress in religion in 1993
Georgia Durante embarked on a career as a model at the age of 12 and by the age of 17 she was the most photographed girl in America
while continuing to establish herself as a model into adulthood connections through her husband led to her becoming a getaway driver for the New York Mafia, in particular, the Gambino
family, she accompanied them on robberies and shootings and became a career moving millions of dollars in packages for the family I was appearing on covers of magazines who was
going to suspect me she famously asked following physical abuse from her husband she realized she needed to divorce him and cut ties with the mob she then put her
experience behind the wheel to a more legal use Durante found fame as a Hollywood stunt woman her first movie job came in 1984 in Beverly Hills Cop and she
eventually even founded her own Hollywood stunt company to date she has appeared in twenty feature films and 300 commercials
the ultimate movie bad guy who
in real life well was a bad guy throughout his earlier years Trejo spent a lot of time in prisons for various crimes including drug dealing but during one of
his sentences Trejo started a riot and seriously injured a god when he hit him on the head with a rock Trejo was placed in solitary confinement where he thought
he would receive the death penalty as a result of some of the charges against him, in the end, Trejo got off the hook but this close shave with death
was the catalyst for him to turn his life around he became a drug counselor and in 1985 Trejo showed up on the set for the film runaway train to
help a client it was on these charts visit the Trejo was asked if he'd like to be an extra in the movie playing the part of an inmate how
fitting now here's a Hollywood icon whose cred includes the blockbuster Spy Kids desperado and from dusk till dawn to name just a few of his 300 film credits Bubble
The boy is obviously number one
age of just 15 Mathis became involved in a gang and quickly got a criminal record for breaking and entering and stealing when he was just 17 years old he
was arrested on a concealed weapons charge and ended up in prison it was in prison that Malthus decided to turn his life around following a promise that he made
to his mother, before she died Mathis passed his high school exams earned a university degree and a law degree and passed the far exam he became an attorney in 1993 and in 1994 he ran for a seat on the bench of Michigan's busiest court Mathis won the election and became the courts youngest ever
district court judge in 1998 warner brothers offered Mathis his own courtroom style TV show aptly named judge Mathis which debuted in 1999 and is still on the air to
date there have been two thousand episodes across 19 seasons
in New York when he was just 12 years old and even dropped out of high school to sell the drug to make money Carter also absorbed the gun culture
that was rife in the neighborhood resulting in him shooting his own brother in the shoulder but Carter managed to turn his life around through music which he turned to
at a young age to escape from the violence and poverty of the drug that surrounded him in 1989 he collaborated with the rapper Jasso on a song called the originators and
created the stage name jay-z rather than waiting to get signed to a label jay-z created his own label Rockefeller records and released his debut album reasonable doubt in 1996
and well the rest is history to date jay-z has sold 50 million albums and won ten Grammys his net worth is eight hundred and ten million dollars and oh
yes he's married to Beyonce
Eugene Francois Vidocq was a juvenile criminal in the 19th century France he spent the earlier parts of his life committing
crimes such as theft and fraud and spent a lot of time in prison but Vidocq turned things around after he went it's the execution of one of his oldest
friends decided to leave his criminal ways behind he offered his services to the police as an informant and was placed in a Parisian jail as a spy reporting on
his fellow inmates this made redock the first-ever private investigator v-dog organized in the informal police force which was eventually given the official name of Surratt a Nationale by Napoleon
Bonaparte, it was the predecessor to the modern French National Police and its course of 28 X criminals covered the whole of Paris significantly reducing crime in the capital redock
later became the basis for fictional detectives including Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes and Victor Hugo Javert in lay miserably
successful that he was recognized by members of organized crime who asked him to work for them Larry then began robbing jewelry stores and over the course of seven years
he robbed 20 stores and got away with 15 million dollars in diamonds alone earning his place on the FBI's most-wanted list Larry was eventually captured and was sentenced
to 12 years in prison following his release Lawton established the reality check program in which he uses his own experience to educate at-risk young people and save them from
a life of crime and imprisonment he is now an honorary police officer and is the first ex-convict in the states to receive the honor
14 he became involved in gangs and eventually joined the Ku Klux Klan where he climbed the ranks to the top he partook in violent activities burning crosses outside people's
homes and even burning a church but Clary reached a turning point in his life after reading the Bible which led him to repentance he said God my life is
screwed up God I'm in a mess I need your help following his repentance he became a Pentecostal evangelist and atoned for his activity as part of the Klan he
then spent the remainder of his life offering guidance to the FBI about how white supremacy groups operate so that was ten criminals who turned their lives around
which did you find the most impressive let us know in the comments below
In this article, we talked about people who change their life give us a lesson. Who came from Dark to light. Such as, Daniel Manville, Kevin Mitnick, Charles Wendell Colson, and more...
Daniel Manville
Daniel Manville is an American lawyer professor an advocate of prisoners rights but that's mainly because he was once a prisoner himself in 1973 when studying a
Michigan College Manville pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter he was helping a friend get back drugs and money that had been stolen but during the siege of the alleged thief
two people unexpectedly walked in Manville chloroformed one of them but they had a bad reaction to the chemical and died Manville served almost four years in prison as a
result but during his time in prison Manville turned things around he continued his studies and managed to obtain two college degrees after his parole he passed the bar exams
in Michigan and Washington throughout his legal career Manville strive to improve the prison system and would represent inmates and prison guards in civil cases today Manville teaches law at
Michigan State University
Kevin Mitnick
From a young age, Kevin Mitnick learned how to compromise cybersecurity systems he gained access to the Los Angeles bus system at
13 and allegedly hacked the North American Aerospace Defense Command computer in 1981 at the age of just seventeen over the next ten years Mitnick continued to hack into corporate
organizations gaining access to some of the most well-guarded systems including those of Motorola net comp and Nokia this made him the first hacker to appear on the most-wanted
list of the FBI and in 1995 he was charged with 14 counts of fraud and served five years in prison but after his time in prison Mitnick reinvented himself
as a security consultant and ethical hacker selling his skills under his trading name Linux security as a tester to help companies discover loopholes in their security systems he is
now a trusted security consultant to fortune 500 companies and governments all over the world
Charles Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson was an aide to America President Richard
Nixon during the 1970s but in 1974 he was tried and convicted for his part in the notorious Watergate scandal in a cover-up to hide the activities that took place
to destroy the credibility of pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg he served seven months in prison in his memoir born again and Colson wrote I found myself increasingly drawn to the
the idea that God had put me in prison for a purpose and that I should do something for those I had left behind Carlson had a religious awakening during his
sentence and left with a new mission he founded Prison Fellowship in 1976 which has become America's biggest Christian nonprofit organization serving prisoners former prisoners and their families and is
a leading advocate for criminal justice reform in recognition for his work in the field Colson was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize for progress in religion in 1993
Georgia Durante
Georgia Durante embarked on a career as a model at the age of 12 and by the age of 17 she was the most photographed girl in America
while continuing to establish herself as a model into adulthood connections through her husband led to her becoming a getaway driver for the New York Mafia, in particular, the Gambino
family, she accompanied them on robberies and shootings and became a career moving millions of dollars in packages for the family I was appearing on covers of magazines who was
going to suspect me she famously asked following physical abuse from her husband she realized she needed to divorce him and cut ties with the mob she then put her
experience behind the wheel to a more legal use Durante found fame as a Hollywood stunt woman her first movie job came in 1984 in Beverly Hills Cop and she
eventually even founded her own Hollywood stunt company to date she has appeared in twenty feature films and 300 commercials
Danny Trejo
the ultimate movie bad guy who
in real life well was a bad guy throughout his earlier years Trejo spent a lot of time in prisons for various crimes including drug dealing but during one of
his sentences Trejo started a riot and seriously injured a god when he hit him on the head with a rock Trejo was placed in solitary confinement where he thought
he would receive the death penalty as a result of some of the charges against him, in the end, Trejo got off the hook but this close shave with death
was the catalyst for him to turn his life around he became a drug counselor and in 1985 Trejo showed up on the set for the film runaway train to
help a client it was on these charts visit the Trejo was asked if he'd like to be an extra in the movie playing the part of an inmate how
fitting now here's a Hollywood icon whose cred includes the blockbuster Spy Kids desperado and from dusk till dawn to name just a few of his 300 film credits Bubble
The boy is obviously number one
judge Greg Mathis
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once said I'm living proof that people can change and he certainly is just that at the
age of just 15 Mathis became involved in a gang and quickly got a criminal record for breaking and entering and stealing when he was just 17 years old he
was arrested on a concealed weapons charge and ended up in prison it was in prison that Malthus decided to turn his life around following a promise that he made
to his mother, before she died Mathis passed his high school exams earned a university degree and a law degree and passed the far exam he became an attorney in 1993 and in 1994 he ran for a seat on the bench of Michigan's busiest court Mathis won the election and became the courts youngest ever
district court judge in 1998 warner brothers offered Mathis his own courtroom style TV show aptly named judge Mathis which debuted in 1999 and is still on the air to
date there have been two thousand episodes across 19 seasons
Jay Z Shawn Carter
started selling cocaine on the streets of the drug-infested Marcy projects housing estate
in New York when he was just 12 years old and even dropped out of high school to sell the drug to make money Carter also absorbed the gun culture
that was rife in the neighborhood resulting in him shooting his own brother in the shoulder but Carter managed to turn his life around through music which he turned to
at a young age to escape from the violence and poverty of the drug that surrounded him in 1989 he collaborated with the rapper Jasso on a song called the originators and
created the stage name jay-z rather than waiting to get signed to a label jay-z created his own label Rockefeller records and released his debut album reasonable doubt in 1996
and well the rest is history to date jay-z has sold 50 million albums and won ten Grammys his net worth is eight hundred and ten million dollars and oh
yes he's married to Beyonce
Eugene Francois Vidocq
crimes such as theft and fraud and spent a lot of time in prison but Vidocq turned things around after he went it's the execution of one of his oldest
friends decided to leave his criminal ways behind he offered his services to the police as an informant and was placed in a Parisian jail as a spy reporting on
his fellow inmates this made redock the first-ever private investigator v-dog organized in the informal police force which was eventually given the official name of Surratt a Nationale by Napoleon
Bonaparte, it was the predecessor to the modern French National Police and its course of 28 X criminals covered the whole of Paris significantly reducing crime in the capital redock
later became the basis for fictional detectives including Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes and Victor Hugo Javert in lay miserably
Larry Lawton
Larry Lawton was one of the biggest jewel thieves in America during the 90s he began his life of crime in his 20s taking bets on the streets of New York, in fact, Larry became so
successful that he was recognized by members of organized crime who asked him to work for them Larry then began robbing jewelry stores and over the course of seven years
he robbed 20 stores and got away with 15 million dollars in diamonds alone earning his place on the FBI's most-wanted list Larry was eventually captured and was sentenced
to 12 years in prison following his release Lawton established the reality check program in which he uses his own experience to educate at-risk young people and save them from
a life of crime and imprisonment he is now an honorary police officer and is the first ex-convict in the states to receive the honor
John Lee Clary
John Lee Clary was born in June 1959 in Oklahoma where he was raised in a racist home by his father who encouraged hatred toward minorities at the age of
14 he became involved in gangs and eventually joined the Ku Klux Klan where he climbed the ranks to the top he partook in violent activities burning crosses outside people's
homes and even burning a church but Clary reached a turning point in his life after reading the Bible which led him to repentance he said God my life is
screwed up God I'm in a mess I need your help following his repentance he became a Pentecostal evangelist and atoned for his activity as part of the Klan he
then spent the remainder of his life offering guidance to the FBI about how white supremacy groups operate so that was ten criminals who turned their lives around
which did you find the most impressive let us know in the comments below
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