- On Wednesday, former Governor Rod Blagojevich will make his final public statement before reporting to prison in Colorado. Why did he chose Englewood Federal Correctional Institution?
Because his sentence is more than 10 years, Blagojevich is not eligible for a prison camp, as was the case with his immediate predecessor former Gov. George Ryan and nearly all the other defendants in Chicago area political corruption cases. Blagojevich is headed to a low security prison in Colorado where he will serve at least the first few years of a 14 year sentence.
[...] "And more importantly, that institution has more visits more times a week than other institutions in Illinois. It's really not a bad place," Larry Levine said. Levine, a former inmate, now makes his living preparing the recently convicted for life in federal prison. When he says "it's really not a bad place", he means that in a comparative sense.
Good riddance.