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Lerach moves to medium-security prison

By Jason Siegel

Former securities class-action attorney Bill Lerach was transferred from a minimum-security camp to a medium-security prison in Phoenix, Cal Law's Legal Pad reported (here).

Earlier this summer, the former class action attorney was placed in administrative segregation, locked down 23 hours a day, after allegedly offering a prison guard season tickets to NFL games during his second month in prison, The Recorder reported (here).

Presumably, that had something to do with Lerach's departure to a more security prison. He was previously at a minimum security camp in Lompoc, Calif. which has "dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing," according to the Bureau of Prisons.

He's now at The Federal Correctional Institution, 25 miles north of downtown Phoenix.

Medium-security prison means "strengthened perimeters (often double fences with electronic detection systems), mostly cell-type housing, a wide variety of work and treatment programs, an even higher staff-to-inmate ratio than low security FCIs, and even greater internal controls," according to the Bureau of Prisons.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).