ENGLEWOOD, CO – (Jeff Coen, Chicago Tribune. Please click on the link for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich leaves his house to head to Federal Court for a sentencing hearing on December 7, 2011 in Chicago. Prosecutors are asking for a sentence of 15-20 years as punishment for Blagojevich’s conviction on 18 criminal counts involving the attempted sale of a U.S. Senate seat, illegal shakedowns for campaign funds and lying to federal agents UPI/Brian Kersey
Federal inmate 40892-424 has his voice back.
More than five years after he went to prison for corruption, disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is speaking out for the first time since beginning his sentence.
The interviews paint a picture of a former governor who remains unrepentant and unbowed, if bruised, as he serves his 14-year-sentence. Among the tidbits on Blagojevich’s life inside a federal correctional facility in Colorado:
•His prison ID was often a theft target when he first arrived because inmates believed they could sell it on the outside.
•He doesn’t have internet access or keep up with any news that closely, but “I know about the murder rate in Chicago.”
•He doesn’t watch many movies, either, recalling seeing “Lincoln,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis recently and “Ghost,” the old Patrick Swayze film.
•His prison nickname is “Gov,” and while he still reads and jogs religiously, he doesn’t follow politics.
•He makes $8 a month in what he calls “the reverse American Dream.”
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