Media Baron Black Prepares For Life Behind Bars

Media Baron Black Prepares For Life Behind Bars

Conrad Black could find lack of privacy is the hardest condition he faces after he reports to a Florida prison by Monday afternoon to begin serving a 6½-year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice.

Black will have to report to a federal prison, likely a low-security facility at the Coleman Federal Correction Complex in central Florida, by 2 p.m. local time, although he could arrive before then.

At Coleman, there are two layers of fences and two layers of barbed wire surrounding the complex. Inside, the facility offers a different lifestyle than that to which the former media baron is accustomed.

Montreal-born Black, 63, will be housed in a dorm-like setting and share a cubicle with another man, the Times of London newspaper reported on Saturday. The eight-by-nine-foot living space is separated from adjacent cubicles by cinder-block walls.

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