Curtis Carroll

Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll is a prisoner in California’s San Quentin State Prison, Northern California, serving a sentence of 54 years to life, for murder.  He has earned the nickname "Wall Street". 

Early life 
Carroll grew up in East Oakland.  He left school at an early age and, seeking refuge and security in the streets providing for himself with petty crimes like boosting quarters from video games.  He drifted through his early teens a lost and confused kid sustaining himself by engaging in petty crimes on the streets.  In 1996, when 17 years old, he committed a robbery where a man was killed.  Carroll turned himself in and received a 54 years-to-life sentence. 

Education and investing in prison 
Carroll was illiterate when he was imprisoned and after learning to read and write in prison at the age of 20 the stock market captured his attention and started studying it.  Carroll's role models quickly changed from criminals, drug-dealers and sports figures to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. 

Transfer to San Quentin Prison

Collaboration with Troy Williams 
After being transferred to San Quentin Prison in 2012, Carroll along with fellow inmate Troy Williams, started the Financial Literacy Program. Together they created F.E.E.L (Financial Empowerment Emotional Literacy). 

Collaboration with  Zak Williams 
Along with Zak Williams, the son of comedian Robin Williams and a graduate of Columbia Business School, the duo teach a financial literacy class.  The class educates inmates on how inmates can develop skills applicable to life outside prison. 

Philosophy 
Carroll's philosophy is that most crime is attributed to a lack of financial security, which has led him to teach other San Quentin State Prison inmates about the stock market. 

Carroll is known as “The Oracle of San Quentin.” 

See also 
 San Quentin State Prison
 Juvenile court
 Defense of infancy
 American juvenile justice system
 Youth incarceration in the United States
 Juvenile delinquency in the United States

References

Category:American financial traders
Category:American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Category:Living people
Category:San Quentin State Prison
Category:San Quentin State Prison inmates
Category:1978 births