By The Way...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
5:29:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Gaaah! How did it get to be after 5pm anyway? I hate it when the day gets away from me like that.

I did do some reading, however, which I would now like to share with you, especially if you've been contemplating doing something in a white-collar crime that might get you a five year stint in a minimum-security prison camp if it goes terribly wrong: According to this article, there are no more "Club Feds," and even the most minimum of minimum security prisons these days is a complete depressing drag to be in:

Like many other white-collar convicts, Porro wound up in a prison camp—a punishment often dismissed as a Club Fed holiday for wealthy, well-con­nected criminals, who spend their days sunbathing and working on their short irons. But scores of interviews with former inmates, legal experts, aca­demics, members of advocacy groups, and others who know prisons paint a starkly different picture. In recent years, changing demographics, tighter reg­ulations, and lengthening sentences have combined to make life in prison camps more and more similar to life in higher-security facilities. “It’s not Yale, it’s jail,” says Dennis Faulk, a retired employee of the Federal Bureau of Prisons who spent part of his 27-year career at Allenwood prison camp. “We don’t separate a white-collar guy from an orga­nized-crime guy from a bank robber—they’re all the same.”

Certainly, if you have to go to jail, federal prison camp is the place to be. But for inmates who have left behind powerful jobs, close families, and abun­dant lifestyles, prison camp can present significant hardships. “You’ve been giving orders your whole life, and now there’s this buffoon with an IQ of 20 telling you to clean the toilet—and you’ve got to do it,” said one representative of a prisoner-advocacy group.

After serving five years in two different facili­ties, Porro reflected on his experience. “It’s a hellish place,” he said, “especially for a white-collar guy.”

 Boy, that sure takes all the fun out a little carefree embezzling, doesn't it?


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• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  5/16/07 6:14 PM | Permalink

  In rich people prison rapes, they work you over with a golf club instead of a broomstick.