Defrauded in Prison? Call This Guy
A young California lawyer helps long-term inmates with their white-collar problems.
When Perry Fisher was sentenced to a California prison for second-degree murder in 1991, he knew he was going away for a very long time. Not surprisingly, keeping an eye on his finances wasn’t the first thing on his mind.
But at the time, Fisher believed he had nearly $43,000 to his name, money from an award he won in an earlier workers’ compensation lawsuit. Worried he would squander the cash on a drug habit, he says he entrusted most of the settlement to his attorney in the case. Once he was incarcerated, Fisher says, he would occasionally ask the lawyer, Burt Channing, to put some of the money into his commissary
