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"Sins and Admission: Getting Into the Top Prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this posts is the headline of this intriguing little article from today's Wall Street Journal.  Here is how it starts: 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. But the bureau has created guidelines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).