Bernie Madoff serves sentence in green, LEED-certified federal prison
Photo: Correctional News Bernie Madoff didn’t want to go to Butner Federal Prison, located in a quiet suburban area outside of Durham, N.C. He would have preferred Otisville, which is just 70 miles outside of NYC, but being rich and famous doesn’t mean the feds care about your preferences. At least Madoff can take comfort in the fact that the prison where he’ll spend the remaining years of his life is green.
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Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 1:00 PM ESTPlush digs
Bernie will live out the rest of his days in relative comfort, all his needs taken care of -- food, a bed, probably even T.V. and books. Much better than billions of people around the world have it.
Posted By nate - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 12:28 AM ESTJeret
Wow. What's with the random Kevin Bacon hatred?
Posted By Jeret - Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 9:58 PM ESTHe Swindled
Rich incompetent fools.Our country is screwed.Madoff was a swindler and "our"elites wanted to swindle more.Please read up on his clients because they are criminals as much as him,kevin bacon,dont feel sorry for his clients,they knew what they were gettin into
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 11:21 AM ESTWhy not?
Lower daily cost to maintain a long-time offender makes sense to me.
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 10:42 AM ESTIt's Green, But is it Secure?
I sure do hope Bernie's nice new Green Prison is secure. Don't want to see him get loose and pull another scheme. I hope they have one of the best alarm companies monitoring this guy!
Posted By Anonymous - Sat, Jul 25 2009 at 8:40 PM ESTYou are aware he stays out of the goodness of his heart?
He does not have to stay in jail, he has the money to have 1000's of ex special forces remove him from the prison and transport him to the nation of his choosing.
The fact a man like him has volunteered to go to prison and stay, shows he is sorry.
Posted By Anonymous - Sun, Jul 26 2009 at 3:04 PM ESTAll his money has been obtained by the Feds.
He was a horrible person who operated a Ponzi scheme. With all of his money obtained, he has no choice but to go to prison where he belongs for the rest of his life. Honestly, I think that prison is must too comfortable for him.
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 12:18 AM ESTGreen Prison
Whenever there is some kind of 'green' anything, it means someone is "making the green"!
Damned phony enviromentalist's.
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 1:46 PM ESTread/spell and learn
The article stated the costs were minimal. And it's environmentalists.
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Jul 22 2009 at 12:15 AM ESTMadoff is a petty criminal compared to the U.S Government.
The Headline Says it all.
Posted By jsveverka@yahoo.com - Tue, Jul 21 2009 at 1:00 PM ESTI look forward to the time that this is not a story
The world is going Green and some people just don't know it yet. We are at the start of the Green Century. All our hippy teachers in school have made us this way. Lincoln said it long ago. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Posted By Pravdaddy - Tue, Jul 21 2009 at 10:55 AM ESTA Special Prison . . . for now
Yes, but by the time he's serving the 50th or 60th year of his 150-year sentence, all prisons will be LEED-certified, so it won't be special anymore.
Posted By Dang - Mon, Jul 20 2009 at 1:33 PM ESTThere goes the nieghborhood
I just moved to Durham NC, and am very freaked out that the only green prison in the US is right down the road (had no idea), but also that the worlds worst (convicted) crook will be there.
Posted By Anonymous - Tue, Jul 21 2009 at 8:29 AM ESTHa, are you kidding me?
Bernie Madoff is "the worlds worst (convicted) crook"? Seriously?
What, are you worried he's gonna escape and try and sell you the Brooklyn Bridge or something?
Posted By Anonymous - Sun, Jul 19 2009 at 1:51 AM ESTBetter than he deserves...
Bernie should spend his days in a Supermax Rectal Enlargement Unit.
Posted By Uncle B - Sat, Jul 18 2009 at 6:14 AM ESTBlack Like Me
America Love it or leave it, Goyim!
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 6:37 PM ESTThey call their screws 'faculty"?
"70 percent of construction waste was recycled and the faculty uses green cleaning products."
Posted By Blair - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 2:26 PM EST???
Why the hell would a prison need bicycle storage?!
Posted By Daisy - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 2:45 PM ESTGreen Prison
Probably because they have staff that don't LIVE on the premises.
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 12:43 PM ESTWe Still Lose
After swindeling families' life savings before prison...he's being sent to hang out in the library...meanwhile we continue to sustain him in prison.
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 12:15 PM ESTDon't all old jewish men
Become gardeners in Florida?
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 10:08 AM ESTso appropriate
an ad for a pyramid scheme in an article about Madoff.
Can you say "IRONY"?
Posted By dragonet2 - Fri, Jul 17 2009 at 12:51 AM ESTBernie Madoff
I think he should be serving time in a supermax. He destroyed a lot of peoples' lives, He deserves the terror that another prisoner is going to rape him or abuse him. He's a piece of **** that deserves nothing but to be treated as such.
Posted By John Davis - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 11:50 PM ESTWow
Wow, that is pretty amazing. I am sure he will be comfortable there!
Posted By Bernie Madoff - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 11:16 PM ESTOHAI
HEY GUISE!!! IT'S REALLY AWSUM HERE!!! *MUAH* <3
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 6:06 PM ESTOy, Madoff
Just when you think he's left our newscycle, he pulls us right back in.
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 4:49 PM ESTMadoff's Jail
I would have preferred Supermax but anywhere that Bernie doesn't want to go will do!! He wanted Otisville so it would be closer for Ruthie to visit and tried the "kosher" card to get in. But all those restaurants that Bernie ate out in? Well they weren't serving kosher food, so he didn't keep kosher so why should he go there?
Posted By Mark H. Sherman - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 4:24 PM ESTMadoff's jail
Why would they send him there?
Posted By Dave Getty - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 4:41 PM ESTMadoff's jail
Yep, North Carolina's federal penitentiary is pretty well-know and, from what I hear, a fairly nice joint.
Green is not the color
I suspect no matter how green things are in prison, the people he bilked are seeing red.