Posted on 11/28/2004 4:07:58 PM PST by LouAvul
DENVER (AP) - The food at the Federal Corrections Camp in Alderson, W.Va., apparently is nothing to write home about - unless one is eating it with Martha Stewart.
Roman Catholic nun Carol Gilbert, 57, who is serving time in the same prison as the famous homemaker, says she enjoys eating with Stewart, although the setting could be better.
"We're not talking about a tea party," Gilbert's attorney, Sue Tyburski, told the Rocky Mountain News for a story in Saturday's editions. "We're talking about a big cafeteria setting with the terrible food."
Gilbert is serving 33 months on convictions of obstructing the national defense and damaging government property for her role in an anti-war protest at a missile silo in 2002.
Stewart was convicted on obstruction of justice in May and began serving her five-month sentence at the women's federal prison Oct. 8.
Stewart, 63, is getting "kid-glove" treatment from the guards, Tyburski said.
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"I'd have given her a year or more"
I sooooooo agree with you, this felon is getting off way to easy for my liking and her shareholders are not thrilled about her lenient sentence yet her stock has risen to $24 while she sits in prison stealing sugar, etc. go figure.
I agree with you.....Terry McAuliffe should be in the SLAMMER for his Global Crossing shenanigans....and look where HE is!
Screw the setting. Martha smuggles in her own spices. How can it be any better?
Martha is a business woman, and you know she's going to get a book deal out of this.
That's probably why the warden/wardeness is making sure he/she doesn't come off bad in her book.
remember the thread a couple months back where they talked about what kinds of things they could buy at the prison commisary.
it sounds like they have everything there except a conceirge.
Published on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 by the Rocky Mountain News
A Force of Habits: Nuns Raid Silo Site
Trio tweaks nose of military, refuses to renounce activism
by Charlie Brennan
Not long after sunrise on Oct. 6, three people armed with a bolt cutter sliced through a security chain to invade what the U.S. Defense Department calls "November 8" - N8 - an unmanned Minuteman missile site in northeastern Weld County.
Catholic nuns Ardeth Platte, left, Carol Gilbert and Jackie Hudson were arrested at gunpoint Oct. 6 after they used bolt cutters to enter a fenced Minuteman missile site in Weld County. They poured some of their own blood in the shape of crosses on the lid of the missile silo.
Within 44 minutes, the intruders were arrested by the United States Air Force 321st Missile Squadron Security Response Team and the 791st Security Forces Squadron Fire Team.
Outfitted in matching white jumpsuits bearing the unfamiliar acronym "CWIT'' and the labels "DISARMAMENT SPECIALIST," the trio was arrested at gunpoint and swiftly hauled off into federal custody.
"These military installations contain some of the most sensitive and sophisticated weaponry in the country," said William Taylor, chief of the major-crimes unit for the U.S. attorney's office.
"They are a critical part of our national defense and must be protected. Those who interfere with these installations will be prosecuted."
Even if they are Catholic nuns.
Carol Gilbert, 55, Jackie Hudson, 68, and Ardeth Platte, 66, are members of the Dominican order. The letters on their suits stood for Citizen Weapons Inspection Team.
Thank you! I thought I was the only one who understood this.
The complete story is even worse. She was convicted of lying about a crime which investigators could not prove and which prosecutors subsequently removed from the indictment.
George Orwell only got it half right and would not believe the modern age.
Best regards,
Nuns are addressed as "Sister," rather than "Mrs."
Heck I don't know. Never could keep all those titles straight.
Mrs. Ms. Miss ........
And don't even start in on my punctuation....... ;-)
NICE SPICE RACK
By RICH CALDER
November 26, 2004 -- Martha Stewart's prison secrets right down to the spices she allegedly sneaks into her bra have been revealed by her cellmates.
Fellow "Camp Cupcake" inmates are monitoring Martha's every move at the West Virginia lockup, and are disclosing the lengths she goes to to whip up gourmet treats behind bars, including stashing condiments and such in her unmentionables.
According to letters provided to The Post by one inquisitive inmate, prison guards searched the culinary queen's locker last month and found hidden food inside.
Stewart Prisoner No. 55170-054 was caught with the goods and punished with additional work duty after a prison pal ratted her out, the letters said.
The woman squealed on Stewart after the guru of good living allegedly refused to pay her for helping collect food that would be sneaked back to Stewart's quarters and cooked.
The letters discuss some of what The Post reported about Stewart's roller-coaster first six weeks behind bars but also provide outlandish details that were unknown until now.
For instance, Stewart on Oct. 18 was handed a list of items that her pal expected to be paid for, but Martha refused to pay "for the government's free stuff," the letter says. The pal gave Martha up, and the next morning, Stewart's locker was searched. Guards found brown sugar, powdered sugar, cinnamon, butter and other food hidden inside.
A second prisoner confirmed this story. She also said Stewart, since being caught, now smuggles condiments and small portions of food out of the kitchen by "stuffing them in her bra."
Dawn Zobel, a spokeswoman at the Federal Prison Camp in rural Alderson, W.Va., said she was unaware whether Stewart has violated any regulations or been reprimanded while incarcerated, adding that she "can't comment on such matters anyway" because of prisoner privacy laws.
George Sard, a spokesman for Stewart, declined to comment.
Stewart, 63, has been dubbed the "Contraband Queen" by fellow prisoners for hoarding items that are off-limits to inmates in their rooms, according to several prison sources. She was called into a lieutenant's office at least three times at least twice for attempting to sneak eggs out of the main kitchen and another time for "being too nice" to other inmates, the letters said.
The penalties for hiding food in her locker included cleaning bathrooms, raking leaves and scrubbing a prison porch, the letters said.
The Post last month also reported that Stewart despises prison food so much that she's cooking her own meals in a kitchenette with a microwave.
Stewart spends her free time these days exercising, reading mail, typing letters, crocheting and watching television with her fellow inmates. Her daughter, Alexis, regularly visits on weekends.
Stewart began serving a five-month sentence on Oct. 8 after being found guilty of obstruction of justice. She appealed the decision, but prosecutors on Wednesday filed a 220-page brief with a federal appeals court urging it to uphold the conviction based on "overwhelming evidence" against the celebrity homemaker.
Some prisoners are so star-struck by Stewart that they "hide the remote control for her" so she can control what is watched, one of the letters said. During the final Bush-Kerry presidential debate on Oct. 13, Martha whipped up a meal in the microwave, ate it and then tried watching the political mudslinging.
"The debate apparently didn't hold her attention because she fell asleep while it was on," a letter said.
Had not seen this picture of Martha before. Interesting.
You have it almost right. All nuns are considered married to Christ and do wear a wedding ring
Nuns are addressed as "Sister," rather than "Mrs."
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How are they addressed after a sex change operation ???
You can be certain the MSM portrays her as one to be admired and emulated.
Martha Stewart got screwed by prosecutors trying to get reelected. Her so-called "insider trading" was chicken feed as far as that crime historically goes.
Sounds like the title to her next book.
It's a photoshop from freeper Blue Highway
Thanks for the graphic.
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