Best Places To Go To Prison

Forbes ^ | 05/25/06 | Lacey Rose

[proud_yank]

I don't see the point in putting these crooks in max-security prisons, it simply isn't worth the money.

But, they certainly have earned hard time, and that is what they should receive.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There are Scandinavian jails (Sweden?) where the prisoner lives on a private estate.

[frankjr]

What about Oswald State Penitentiary?

[Normal4me]

Facing 145 years, I'd already be on a private jet heading to south America.

[Mobties]

One comic on late night television has suggested that being an inmate with a name pronounced "can lay" could be a problem in any prison facility.

[proud_yank]

All bought and paid for with tax-payer dollars.

Prisoner Perks: Less than 30 miles from the Austin Airport, Bastrop is convenient for visitors.

Prisoner Perk: This stand-alone facility includes vocational training to teach prisoners to be cooks, housekeepers, paralegals and painters.

Prisoner Perk: Prisoners can study to be personal fitness trainers or landscapers at Sheridan's camp.

Prisoner Perk: Texarkana offers a track as well as a bocce pit, a basketball court and several fields for inmates to use.

Prisoner Perk: This stand-alone camp offers inmates music lessons and intramural team sports.

Prisoner Perk: Inmates can stay in shape using Lompoc's full gym and tennis courts.

Prisoner Perk: Duluth has a stash of instruments for inmate use, including a piano, drums and acoustic guitars.

Prisoner Perk: Dublin's "Bookmobile" service allows inmates to keep up with their reading.

[misterrob]

WTF is going to want to turn that old man out???

[rightwinggoth]

Plenty. Old men can't fight back too well.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Eglin was once considered so cushy that the term "Club Fed" was actually coined to describe it. It was recently closed.

In 1973-4, as a sergeant of the U.S. Air Force, I was stationed at Eglin AFB. The minimum security prison at Eglin, in the Florida panhandle (Ft. Walton beach area,) was a great place to be incarcerated. I remember playing softball games against the prisoners, and joking that they couldn't steal bases.

I volunteered as a counselor there, and would see the prisoners at Friday Night Sabbath services. A few of them were Jewish, but most were not. One of them confided that they would come to the services for the wine. I guess a couple of one oz. shots of thick, sweet Manishevitz Wine is better than no wine at all. Most, if not all of the inmates were white collar criminals.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Give the scumbags 3 years top and make them do community service teaching classes to undergraduates about the dangers of greed in business. I mean, c'mon. It's not like they created a taxpayer-funded retirement system named Social Security or something.

[Hardastarboard]

Facing 145 years, I'd already be on a private jet heading to south America.

Ding. Give the man a Cohiba. You know they've got the Benjamins to make it happen.

[middie]

We have an extradition treaty with every country in South America. In fact, I can think of only a few countries in the world with which we don't have a treaty, eg: North Korea, Iran, and a couple of others I can't recall.

[Normal4me]

Do you think these guys are destitute? Money buys things especially in third world countries.

[wagglebee]

Other than the sheer arrogance of these people, I never understood why the whole lot of them didn't flee the country back in the Fall of 2001. The problem that they are having now is that most of their assets have been frozen.

As far as extradition goes, a lot of the countries won't cooperate in cases of non-violent white-collar crimes. Marc Rich was living openly in Europe for a long time before he bribed Klintoon for a pardon.

[Normal4me]

Makes ya wonder how their attorneys are going to be paid huh? ;-) I'm not condoning what these guys allegedly did, I'm just saying that if I was convicted and facing the rest of my life in prison and I was free on bail, I'd be looking to get out of the country. Going to south America is going to hell enough as far as I am concerned.

[darkangel82]

Why is there a "Best" places to go to prison anyway?

[joem15]

They are right up there with the likes of OJ Simpson,et al. They should be incarcerated for life somewhere along the Eastern Coast of Florida just as OJ is.

[wagglebee]

These guys had tens and hundreds of millions, they had to know that the whole thing would come crashing down sooner or later. I just don't get why they hung around, they could have lived like royalty in some other country.

[Txsleuth]

I saw Bo Dietl on Neil Cavuto's show today...and he said he bet they headed to some country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with America.

He said that the judge just let them go free...and Bo said that is basically what that Marc Rich did, before Bubba gave him a pardon.

He said that HE himself would do that, if he had money and was facing sure jail time.