Austin_Explorer said:
I fear that they'll end up in some Club Fed location that includes an adjacent golf course!
Non violent offenders go to minimum security or a farm unit (can't remember the real name for those). I've been inside quite a few minimum security institutions but other than seeing the farms I don't know what they're like other than what staff tells me. As for the minimum's - no golf, no exercise equipment, etc - in short, it ain't club fed. They did away with all of that some time back.
It's not booty bandit jail either. Sorry to crush everyone's homosexual jail rape visions.
I've been in the booty bandit joints - my favorite had the nickname Thunderdome (two men enter, one man leaves!) - and there is no comparison to the fed on that aspect. In other words, the lights out at night punishment aspect will be missing for Ken, Jeff and the like.
The farms offer a little nicer experience, but the minimums are most definitely prisons. Even after spending a just a few hours in them as a visitor I was happy as hell getting buzzed through the door on the way out. I always said that one hour spent there was 59 minutes and 59 seconds more than I ever wanted to do.
The real punishment, beside just being not free, is the fact that if they get hit with a big piece of the maximum time their crimes make them eligible for, they will most likely die there. Once you're in the fed system you find they are very different than the states are about handing out time off for good behavior. You get some time off for that and a little more if you take rehabilitation programs (drug/alcohol abuse, anger management, etc.) but it's a small percentage of the time you owe.
I just remembered, there are some with nearby golf courses (usually where prisons and military bases coincide on the same piece of land) and one of the work details the BOP had was to cut grass and do some of the landscaping at the base golf course.
