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Five best prisons indeed!!!
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The title sounds strange, doesn't it? But, beleive me, this is something that I saw when I visited the FORBES.com while roaming on the Internet. I've provided below the major inputs from the site. For further information, youare free to ckeck it out at the site itself.
| 1. | EGLIN (Location: Fort Walton Beach, Fla.): Eglin (Opened: 1962, Capacity: 800) is the original "Club Fed," nicknamed as such back in the 1980s when prisoners were allowed to wear their own clothes and even go home to have dinner with their families. Those fast and loose days are long gone, but the nickname has stuck. Inmates maintain the golf course at nearby Eglin Air Force Base, but make no mistake--they never get the chance to hit a few themselves. Disgraced shoe designer Steve Madden is serving his 41-month sentence here. |
| 2. | NELLIS (Location: North Las Vegas): Nellis (Opened: 1990, Capacity: 415) is one camp that is often requested by white-collar criminals because it's the only minimum-security facility on the West Coast that's freestanding--or, in other words, that isn't located alongside a higher-security prison. Camps that co-exist with hard-core cellblocks feel more like "real" prisons since camp inmates often have to work inside of them, surrounded by the razor wire and watchtowers. |
| 3. | MORGANTOWN (Location: Morgantown, W.Va.): Perched amid the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, Morgantown (Opened: 1969, Capacity: 935) is one of the most picturesque camps in the system. Inmates say it is not unusual for them to awake in the morning to the sight of deer grazing on the compound. |
| 4. | OTISVILLE (Location: Otisville, N.Y.): Otisville (Opened: 1980, Capacity: 100) was designed primarily with the Orthodox Jewish community in mind, although it is not officially designated as a Jewish facility. It was built in response to the fact that Orthodox Jews often tried to get out of doing time by making the legal argument that the Bureau of Prisons violated their First Amendment rights because it could not accommodate their religious lifestyle. |
| 5. | ALLENWOOD (Location: Montgomery, Pa.): Allenwood (Opened: 1952, Capacity: 567) is mentioned often by the media, probably because so many convicts from the New York City area are sent there. And like Eglin, inmates used to be permitted privileges like having food from the outside sent in. But after the public became outraged by these cushy conditions, the camp was overhauled and is now considerably more austere. |
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