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Martha Stewart headed to W. Virginia prison
Minimum-security 'Camp Cupcake' wasn't first choice of either judge or convicted entrepreneur, who will share bunk beds mostly with drug offenders.
By Paul Thomasch, Reuters
Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia, she said on Wednesday.
The federal judge who sentenced Stewart, who is due to report to prison by 2 p.m. (EDT) on Oct 8., had recommended she serve her jail term at either Danbury, Conn., or Coleman, Fla.
But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has instead decided that Stewart will serve the prison sentence at a minimum security facility in Alderson, W.Va., known locally as "Camp Cupcake.''
"While I had hoped to be designated to a facility closer to my family and more accessible to my appellate attorneys, I am pleased that the Bureau of Prisons has designated me so quickly to FPC Alderson, the first federal prison camp for women in the United States,'' Stewart said in a statement.Check out your options.
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"I look forward to getting this behind me and to vigorously pursuing my appeal,'' she added.
Minimum security, mostly drug offenders
In making the decision to send Stewart to Alderson, prison officials believed the celebrity would receive less media attention when reporting for the sentence there than if she were sent to either Danbury or Coleman, according to a source close to matter.
Both of those facilities are also crowded at the moment and have little or no room for new inmates, the source said.
Set along rolling hills about 200 miles south of Pittsburgh, Alderson is a minimum security prison where inmates must work at jobs such as cooking and serving food or doing laundry. It houses more than 1,000 inmates, mostly drug offenders.
The five-month sentence will be a drastic step down in lifestyle for Stewart, who turned a home catering business into a media and merchandising powerhouse that boasts TV shows, magazines and a line of housewares sold at Kmart (KMRT, news, msgs) making her America's best-known home-decorating expert.
At a news conference this month, Stewart said she would miss her dogs, cats, canaries, horses and chickens.
"I hope, too, that I will be able to begin serving my sentence in the very near future because I would like to be back as early in March as possible in order to plant the spring garden,'' she said at the time.
House arrest to follow
Opened in 1927, Alderson was the first institute built only for female prisoners and, among others, at one time housed Lynette "Squeaky'' Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson who later attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
In the 1980s the facility, where inmates sleep in bunk beds in dormitory-style rooms, was reclassified as a minimum security "camp.''
After her release, Stewart would still have to serve five months of house arrest at her home in suburban Bedford, N.Y., where she would wear a monitoring device.
During a period of supervised release that will follow, Stewart has been ordered to report to her probation officer and complete a written report within the first five days of every month.
Stewart, who has declared she will make a comeback, was found guilty in March of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of agency proceedings -- all stemming from her suspicious sale of stock in biotech company ImClone Systems (IMCL, news, msgs) on Dec. 27, 2001.
Shares of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO, news, msgs), fell 15 cents to $15.61 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Martha Stewart headed to W. Virginia prison
Minimum-security 'Camp Cupcake' wasn't first choice of either judge or convicted entrepreneur, who will share bunk beds mostly with drug offenders.
By Paul Thomasch, Reuters
Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia, she said on Wednesday.
The federal judge who sentenced Stewart, who is due to report to prison by 2 p.m. (EDT) on Oct 8., had recommended she serve her jail term at either Danbury, Conn., or Coleman, Fla.
But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has instead decided that Stewart will serve the prison sentence at a minimum security facility in Alderson, W.Va., known locally as "Camp Cupcake.''
"While I had hoped to be designated to a facility closer to my family and more accessible to my appellate attorneys, I am pleased that the Bureau of Prisons has designated me so quickly to FPC Alderson, the first federal prison camp for women in the United States,'' Stewart said in a statement.Check out your options.
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"I look forward to getting this behind me and to vigorously pursuing my appeal,'' she added.
Minimum security, mostly drug offenders
In making the decision to send Stewart to Alderson, prison officials believed the celebrity would receive less media attention when reporting for the sentence there than if she were sent to either Danbury or Coleman, according to a source close to matter.
Both of those facilities are also crowded at the moment and have little or no room for new inmates, the source said.
Set along rolling hills about 200 miles south of Pittsburgh, Alderson is a minimum security prison where inmates must work at jobs such as cooking and serving food or doing laundry. It houses more than 1,000 inmates, mostly drug offenders.
The five-month sentence will be a drastic step down in lifestyle for Stewart, who turned a home catering business into a media and merchandising powerhouse that boasts TV shows, magazines and a line of housewares sold at Kmart (KMRT, news, msgs) making her America's best-known home-decorating expert.
At a news conference this month, Stewart said she would miss her dogs, cats, canaries, horses and chickens.
"I hope, too, that I will be able to begin serving my sentence in the very near future because I would like to be back as early in March as possible in order to plant the spring garden,'' she said at the time.
House arrest to follow
Opened in 1927, Alderson was the first institute built only for female prisoners and, among others, at one time housed Lynette "Squeaky'' Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson who later attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
In the 1980s the facility, where inmates sleep in bunk beds in dormitory-style rooms, was reclassified as a minimum security "camp.''
After her release, Stewart would still have to serve five months of house arrest at her home in suburban Bedford, N.Y., where she would wear a monitoring device.
During a period of supervised release that will follow, Stewart has been ordered to report to her probation officer and complete a written report within the first five days of every month.
Stewart, who has declared she will make a comeback, was found guilty in March of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of agency proceedings -- all stemming from her suspicious sale of stock in biotech company ImClone Systems (IMCL, news, msgs) on Dec. 27, 2001.
Shares of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO, news, msgs), fell 15 cents to $15.61 on the New York Stock Exchange.