Reply #4: Siegelman attorney questions his treatment

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Siegelman attorney questions his treatment, describes long ride
7/13/2007, 7:09 p.m. ET
By BOB JOHNSON
The Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman has been assigned to a prison in Texarkana, Texas, but was flown in shackles to Michigan and New York, with bologna sandwiches to eat, before being placed in a small cell in Oklahoma City, one of his lawyers said Friday.

Siegelman's chief attorney, Vince Kilborn, questioned his client's treatment and said the defense has been mostly unable to talk to him while preparing legal pleadings seeking his release on bond by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"It's impossible to represent somebody on an emergency motion like this without being able to talk to him," Kilborn said.

Kilborn said Siegelman has been assigned to a minimum-security federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, which is about a 520-mile drive from Siegelman's home in Birmingham. Kilborn said the former governor is expected to be taken there next week from Oklahoma City, where he is being held in a small cell at a federal prison transfer station on the edge of the Oklahoma City airport.

Federal prison officials could not immediately be reached Friday evening to comment on Siegelman's transfer.
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