Former prisoners: Blagojevich faces rude awakening

[Playinghardball]

Source: MSNBC

Those who have served time in the federal prison system say Rod Blagojevich is in for a wake-up call, especially because federal policy typically dictates that convicts facing more than 10 years don’t qualify to start their sentences at any of the minimum security prison camps, commonly called Club Fed.

"As soon as he has that first strip search, his life is going to be completely different," said former Cicero Town President Betty Loren Maltese, who served six years of an eight-year sentence for stealing $12 million in municipal funds in an insurance scam.

Illinois' former governor on Wednesday was sentenced to 14 years on federal corruption charges. Former convicts stressed that VIPs don’t get special treatment.

"From the moment you walk in there, it’s all pretty humiliating," said ex-Gov. George Ryan's former chief of staff, Scott Fawell, who served 52 months, mostly in a federal prison camp. "You get there... They sign you in, give you a number, hand you your bunk, your bedding and pillow and tell you what bunk you are in and you march down there and you look around as you are walking there and you think 'Oh my God!'"

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[teddy51]

1. I guess he should have thought about what might happen before committing

his crime. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. With his looks, he is certainly going to be a prime target if he is in General Populace.

[Odin2005]

2. unrec for prison rape joke.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Thanks for calling this out so quickly. I've also un-recc'ed - n/t

[Codeine]

3. Prison rape jokes do not belong on DU.

Uncool.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Unrec'd and alerted for despicable prison rape joke

Rape is rape, wherever and to whomever it happens.

A truly stupid and amoral post.

[arcane1]

6. I don't believe his crime warrants physical assault n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. SEXUAL assault

Let's be clear on exactly what the OP is joking about. He or she thinks it would be hilarious if Rod Blagojovich - a human being - were to be sexually assaulted (not just once, but numerous times) in a federal prison. Hahahahaha! What a funny thing!

That's the moral speed of the OP.

That it is beyond despicable should go without saying, but somehow we still end up in debates over such jokes.

[EC]

7. Already reported in the paper here

he will be going to one of two prisons, one in WI or one in IL and both are White Collar crime fed prisons.

[Little Star]

9. Blagojevich was a small fish in that political cesspool of Chicago, imho...

I think his sentence is too harsh. Others from there have more betrayed the trust put in them and I wouldn't mind seeing their asses in prison.

Don't even ask me what I think of Fitzgerald.

That's the last I will say on the subject. Peace

[Nuclear Unicorn]

10. Darn -- or not. n/t

[dtexdem]

11. Well, he's just the rude type of guy to face a rude awakening.