Blagojevich to begin serving 14-year prison term in Englewood (Colorado)

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FOX Denver:

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is scheduled to arrive at a Colorado federal prison Thursday to begin serving a 14-year sentence on a corruption conviction.

 

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” he told a crowd of sign-wielding supporters outside his Chicago home Wednesday. “But this is the law and we follow the law.”

 

He was convicted of corruption in June 2011 after a jury returned 17 guilty verdicts against him. Among other allegations, he was accused of trying to profit as he considered whom to appoint to take Barack Obama’s open Senate seat.

[RandyM]

Now we get to pay for his country club prison life for ever how short of a time he's there.

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What don't all prisons have a pool table, ping pong and foosball?

[SrWoodchuck]

This facility is only 3 miles from my house, in Littleton, Colorado. We go by it almost 3 or 4 times a week. It isn't Club Fed. There are double rows of razor wire all around the main building, and "criss-cross"patrolling 4x4's with armed federal guards. They have the fields on every side, wired with motion detectors, listening devices & pressure pads. It's mostly younger men in the facility, a lot of them convicted of drug offenses. Across from the prison, there was an historic farm with a large lake, and huge 150 year old trees on two sides......it was sold for a development, and the development was called "Oak View".....but they cut those beautiful trees down [some section as big as an old VW "Bug"] and so we now call it "No Oak View" or "F-ng Prison View Acres." He'll have a good time there, because of his Illinois accent & he's "cute"......