"Good morning! How's your day going?
Maybe not so good? Well, at least your day didn't start as badly as Bob Ney's. Our friend Bob -- a/k/a Inmate #28882-016 -- enjoyed the last "morning constitutional" he's going to have in a private commode until September 2009.
Feeling any better?
The Newark Advocate has the text of Ney's farewell e-mail to his pals before "going inside." Seems in addition to putting his house on the market and cashing in his retirement plan to support his family while he's in the hoosegow, Bob's also sold off his shift key.
Tragic.
Well, sorta, anyway:
Previously known as the Kennedy Center, FCI Morgantown is a "minimum security institution," as defined under federal prison criteria. These prisons have dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio and limited or no perimeter fencing, according to information provided by the FCI.
The Morgantown facility is situated in the proximity of both an elementary and a junior high school, and is across the road from a gated trailer park with a fountain.
About 1,300 other inmates are housed at the prison. Among them is "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch.
Former inmates discussing the facility online describe FCI Morgantown as "pretty nice," considering their circumstances.
The dormitories are said to be the size of a gymnasium with rows of bunk beds separated by high, cinder block walls. There are no doors or privacy for the inmates.
There are, however, TV rooms close by that are equipped with bleachers that can seat up to 40 inmates.
Days begin at 6 a.m. with breakfast, then inmates go to the job each is required to have within the facility. Other than to be present for periodic "stand up counts," inmates are largely free to do what they want during the day. There is a library at the facility, as well as exercise opportunities.
At night, after dinner, inmates may go to the prison theater to view a PG-13 movie.
Not bad, for a former co-sponsor (along with Duke Cunningham, by the way) of the "No Frills Prison Act" -- which, incidentally, would have prohibited giving prisoners "food exceeding in quality or quantity that which is available to enlisted personnel in the United States Army."
Now we know where to ship all that rotten and expired garbage Halliburton has been feeding the troops.
How strange, though, that the trailer park across the street is "gated" and Bob's prison is not." |
