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Article: Wisconsin Prison Inmates to Participate in Stock-Picking Game.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- December 30, 2002
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By Kathleen Gallagher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 30--TAYCHEEDAH, Wis.--Imagine being locked in a small cell every night with no Internet access and a slim chance of finding a newspaper with an intact business section.
Now pick three stocks whose prices will skyrocket over the next 10 weeks.
That's the challenge 15 teams of inmates at four Wisconsin prisons faced this fall when they played Economics Wisconsin's Stock Market Simulation.
The inmates were part of a 10-week pilot program to bring the stock-picking game -- played by more than 2,000 teams of state students in grades 4 through ...