Corrine Brown tried to appeal her sentencing so that she could stay out of prison, but the courts didn’t see it that way and now she must report to a central Florida prison camp on Monday:
JUST IN | Corrine Brown to report to Central Florida prison camp on Monday, sources say (@WJXTLynnsey) — https://t.co/djAMhEdiB0 pic.twitter.com/a1xEm8Pev7
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) January 25, 2018
NEWS4JAX – After a federal appeals court denied Corrine Brown’s request to remain out of prison during her appeal this week, a source told the I-TEAM that Brown has been assigned to a Sumter County women’s prison camp and will likely report Monday.
The source said the former congresswoman has been assigned to a minimum security prison camp for women that is adjacent to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, a medium-security federal prison for men.
The prison camp is about a 2½-hour drive from Jacksonville.
Brown can report earlier than noon Monday to the Sumterville prison camp, but the source told News4Jax that she will likely stretch her freedom as long as she can.
Here’s what it will be like in this minimum security prison camp for women:
A Jacksonville grandmother who served time at the same Sumter County prison camp that Brown is assigned to told News4Jax that women at the camp live in a dormitory-like setting with no bars on the windows or fence around the facility. They sleep in 10-by-10-foot cubicles with two to three women per cube.
The woman, who we identified only as “Alice,” added that guards do not carry guns and there aren’t nightly lock-ups. Doors are left open at all times. The only time Alice recalled them being locked shut was during a tornado warning. Prisoners do have two mandatory count times a day when they line up to be counted at 4 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Alice said the food was horrible but the guards were respectful and some women even received decent medical care.
She said age was not a consideration for those sentenced to the camp.
“You were expected to do what any 20-year-old could do,” Alice said. “They didn’t care.”
Alice, who is in her 60s, estimated 90 percent of all female prisoners are required to work Monday through Friday, unless they have a documented medical condition from a doctor.
She said jobs include: cleaning up around the compound, cooking, trash pickup, lawn mowing, pulling weeds, laundry, cleaning inside the nearby men’s prison, electrical work, warehouse work or serving as a driver.
“It is that movie, ‘Groundhog Day.’ You wake up, you go to work, you come back and you go to bed and then you wake up,” Alice said. “Time doesn’t move the same inside as it does outside.”
I must say that it is nice to see justice being done to at least someone in the Democrat Party. If only this were Hillary Clinton.
Well I can dream…