I never was a huge MS fan. But she's lost her company, lost millions in net
worth, lost her esteem, lost pretty much everything. And now they want to
toss her into jail for violating insider trading laws which did not apply to
her because she was a common shareholder. She's suffered quite enough IMO.

Let no one make a mistake. If they can do it to her, they can do it to
anyone. Martha's fate is a disgrace and should not be taken lightly.

Paul

"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in
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>
> July 18, 2004
> Prison Would Give Stewart New Lifestyle
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>
> HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The Danbury Federal Correctional Institution is
only
> about 20 miles from Martha Stewart's home in Connecticut, but it will seem
> like a world away from her usual lifestyle.
>
> If Stewart loses her appeals, she will in all likelihood end up at the
> low-security prison that is home to 1,300 female inmates.
>
> The queen of high-thread-count sheets will get military-style linens for
her
> bunk bed. She will have to trade in her wardrobe for prison khaki
jumpsuits.
> She could get stuck on kitchen detail -- backbreaking work that pays about
> 12 cents an hour and requires inmates to be up before the crack of dawn.
>
> The women at Danbury have been closely following Stewart's legal saga and
> anticipating her arrival for months.
>
> ``I can guarantee you they're watching anything or everything concerning
> Martha,'' Joyce Ellwanger of Milwaukee, who served time last year there
for
> trespassing during a military protest demonstration, said Friday. ``I'm
sure
> it will be the prime topic of conversation at the table at Danbury.''
>
> Stewart was sentenced Friday to five months in prison and five months of
> home confinement for lying about a stock sale that has tarnished her media
> empire.
>
> A federal judge said he would recommend she serve her time in Danbury. The
> federal Bureau of Prisons has the final say, although officials try to
place
> inmates within 500 miles of home.
>
> For now, the sentence has been delayed pending an appeal.
>
> Stewart's living situation will depend on whether she is assigned to
> Danbury's barracks-style prison camp or to its traditional cellblock
> housing. Either way, Stewart, 62, will have to spend her nights in a bunk
> bed.
>
> ``She's lived a millionaire life. I lived a poor life,'' said Dorothy
> Gaines, 45, who served time at Danbury before President Clinton commuted
her
> drug sentence in 2000. ``She's going to have to live like I lived.''
>
> Inmates can take classes, including crafts. The prison camp has a baseball
> field, volleyball net and walking track.
>
> The woman who taught America how to decorate will not be able to decorate
> Danbury's concrete walls. Inmates can personalize their space only by
> hanging up to four photographs in their lockers.
>
> Still, her homemaking talents could prove valuable: In some parts of the
> prison, inmates with the cleanest cells get to eat meals first.
>
> It has been called Club Fed, but all inmates are required to work. They
can
> request certain jobs such as plumbing, electrical or maintenance work. New
> arrivals and those with short sentences tend to get kitchen work, but
unlike
> Stewart's television cooking demonstrations, this is a strenuous job that
> can require being up by 4 a.m.
>
> ``It's only five months, but it's still going to be prison,'' Gaines said.
> ``She's still going to have to adjust to her new life, adjust to the fact
> that she has nothing.''
>
> She will still have an edge over some of the other inmates, Gaines said.
>
> ``Her home will still be there when she gets out,'' she said. ``She won't
> have the struggles of trying to go find a job and being turned down
because
> she's a convicted felon. She won't know what it's like to apply for
housing
> and get turned down because she's a convicted felon.''
>
> Most people in low-security prisons are there for drug crimes. About 4
> percent are white-collar criminals, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
> Danbury's famous inmates have included Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy
and
> New York hotel queen Leona Helmsley.
>
> ``You meet judges and accountants, but you also meet the murderers,''
Gaines
> said.
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