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"Prison is too good for Blago"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this column by Phil Luciano in the Peoria Journal Star.  Here are some excerpts: How would you like to see Rod Blagojevich punished?  I'd like to see him do something that involves hard and demeaning work. You know, like real punishment.... I get my prison peek courtesy of a pal of mine, "Screamin'."  He recently got out of the federal system after serving three years for fraud.  He spent a good amount of cell time writing me letters about the relative ease of federal prison camps.  Now that he is out and on the straight and narrow, he still is amazed at how little punishment is involved behind bars at minimum-security prison -- and why many folks call it "Club Fed." That's likely where Blago will end up...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).