Getting Into The Top Prisons: Madoff Didn't Get His First Choice

Wall Street Journal:

The federal judge overseeing the trial of Bernard Madoff said he would recommend the man who pulled off the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history serve out his sentence in the Northeast. Instead, Mr. Madoff landed in a prison nearly 500 miles away from his New York home, in North Carolina.

How Mr. Madoff ended up in a medium-security facility at Butner Federal Correctional Center could remain a mystery. The Bureau of Prisons won't discuss the placement of specific inmates, and even veteran attorneys are often left to scratch their heads at why their clients wind up in particular facilities.

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Comments

[brummie]

Hope he meets the Tossed Salad Man. lol

[victor the crab]

He deserves to be at Joliet or Rikers.

[formerprosecutor]

Those are state prisons.

[formerprosecutor]

correction: actually Rikers is a jail ( year or less)

[NoblesseOblige]

I hope he likes grits.

[drewziGNY]

Not get into his first choice?! It's PRISON! Not COLLEGE!

[julia23]

I was thinking 'oh he got his safety prison' too.

[barrycourage]

And he scored 1600 on his S.A.T. (S-c-m-b-g Aptititude Test), too.

This is what happens when you de-emphasize board scores in admissions.

Scandalous!

[CorkiDeCat]

Money talks... Should we be surprised at this?

[wndrwrthg]

Why does he get a choice? Throw his a$$ in Pelican Bay in Ca.