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Federal prisoners do the darndest things

By Douglas A. Berman

This AP story, headlined "Texas prison inmate cons way onto Idaho primary ballot," seems ripe for use in a late-night talk-show monologue.  Here are the basics:A federal prison inmate who once gave an Internal Revenue Service line in Ohio for the phone number of his campaign coordinator has got himself listed on the ballot for Idaho's primary as a Democratic presidential candidate, the state's top election official said.  Keith Russell Judd is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.  He's scheduled for release in 2013. Judd, 49, qualified for the May 27 ballot by submitting a notarized form and paying the required $1,000 fee, state Secretary of State Ben Ysursa said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).