This will be my "devil in the details" post, in celebration of it's number.[hr]
This article verifies that Conrad Black will be serving his sentence at
FCI Coleman Low (and will have regulated e-mail access during his stay). BOP.gov offers this description of low security conditions:
Low security Federal Correctional Institutions (FCIs) have double-fenced perimeters, mostly dormitory or cubicle housing, and strong work and program components. The staff-to-inmate ratio in these institutions is higher than in minimum security facilities.
That last sentence implies "higher than minimum, but lower than all others."
BOP.gov also mentions Colman Low "
is in urgent need of correctional officers to fill vacant positions." So, if anything, the staff-to-inmate ratio will be lower than is typical for a low security institution.
The Star article I linked to before mentions Coleman as the likely candidate. It describes Coleman Low's conditions for paragraphs, which make good reading. Perhaps the most important point, though, is their description of his associates there:
Coleman has a population of around 2,000 doing time for crimes such as robbery and firearms offences.
Apparently Black can expect inmates such as Mariano (28 in 2002) from Buenos Aires, in for 40 months, whose father came to visit him in prison [
1]. Other prison talk about FCI Coleman Low: [
2], [
3]. No description mentions STDs, junkies, violent episodes, or rapes. They seem complimentary, not fearful.
In difference to your side, there is a rehab center there, and
at least one inmate has Hep C (or did in 2001). The rest of the article is editorial from an activist website (they "challenge" "the right-wing media machine" [
4]) without presented evidence of their claims, but I assume the infected convict named is real. But one Hep C patient out of 2,000 is actually better odds (0.05%) than 4 million out of 300 million (1.33%, the national figure, based on the same source). Those figures don't actually suggest a lower Hep C rate than the national average because of methodology problems, but they certainly don't suggest a higher Hep C (or any infection) rate than the nation at large.
Here a woman claims her husband was recommended Coleman as opposed to a "camp" (ie, minimum security institution) by his lawyer.
Maybe you know something I don't, but all the above evidence, everything I've seen and read, says FCI Coleman Low is about as nice a place as one can expect from a prison. Google provides no instances of rape or assault there, and everyone and their lawyers, when discussing their personal situations, seems to be picking Coleman as the best prison in the area.
There's more evidence here for favoritism for the rich than for cruel or unfair treatment.
And of course this is not all the information that exists. I'm sure there's been at least one violent assault at Coleman Low, some infections spreading, even some STDs. I'm not trying to suggest these things don't exist or that Coleman Low is better than the nation at large. I'm just demonstrating what evidence looks like, that you haven't provided any, and that none the evidence I can find defends your claim that Black is entering "
a prison full of STD infected junkies and thugs that will rape and beat you, and often shank you". If legs are presented evidence, it's you who has no leg, not a single presented fact, to stand on.
If you have any evidence beyond prison mythology and your own word, please present it.
[hr]And Merry Christmas, everyone.
CKA Elite 
