http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3357992,00.htmlBy Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News
November 27, 2004
Prison can breed surprising friendships. Take, for example, anti-nuclear activist and Dominican nun Carol Gilbert and America's most famous fallen homemaker, Martha Stewart. Gilbert is at the Federal Corrections Camp in Alderson, W.Va., serving 33 months for her April 2003 conviction on one count each of felony sabotage and destruction of government property. Stewart started a five-month sentence Oct. 8 at the same facility for lying to investigators about the circumstances of a now notorious 2001 stock sale.
Recently, Gilbert, 57, and Stewart, 63, ended up at the same lunch table. The pacifist, who has taken a vow of poverty, and the multimillionaire, who was chauffeured to prison by her personal security team, enjoyed their meeting - given the circumstances. "We're not talking about a tea party," said Gilbert's Denver attorney, Sue Tyburski. "We're talking about a big cafeteria setting with the terrible food."
Gilbert wrote briefly about meeting Stewart in a recent letter to Tyburski, who had handled her case at no charge. "She said that Martha is getting the kid-gloves treatment from all the guards and that she's in great demand for people to visit with at lunchtime," Tyburski said. Stewart, Gilbert told her lawyer, is writing a book about her prison experience.
"Sister Carol," Tyburski said, "rather than saying, 'I hope I make it into her book' - as a lot of the prisoners are saying - says, 'I hope she writes about the plights of all these other women who have received lengthy sentence under federal mandatory drug-sentencing laws.' Rather than worrying about herself, as usual, she's thinking about everyone else there."
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