http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444228,00.html
In this article, former Detroit, Michigan Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail after a sex-and-misconduct scandal. A sheriff says that Kilpatrick will not be put in with other inmates in the jail. The reason that he will be kept out of their is because of his notoriety, or the fact that he is well known. He has a 120-day sentence starting today for obstruction of justice. He lied in a civil trial involving former police officers. In the trial he pleaded guilty and had to resign from his position. His living cell will be a 15 by 10 foot cell in which he will be in for 23 hours of the day with one hour of recreational activity. At $60 a day there will be a nice bill awaiting him when he gets out.
When it comes to well known people getting in to some trouble and having to go to jail it bothers me to no end that they get to be in their own little secluded area because people know them. Celebrities is a big one that gets me. They get to be in nice little "jail cells" and still have some luxuries that others who did the same crime would never get in jail let alone in thier actual life. When it comes to this mayor, he should do the time the right way. Kept within the other inmates. He really is no better than other inmates because he too committed a crime. He shouldn't have done it in the first place really. I guess it's easier said than done for some. It's good that he will be in that cell for 23 out of the 24 hours though. But when I think about it 10 by 15 foot isn't all that small. When I think of a jail cell, I think smaller than that and the bare necessities not something the size of my own bedroom.
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