How to Thrive in Prison
Diane Ellis ·
April 26, 2012 at 12:50am
By all accounts, disgraced former Governor Rod Blagojevich is flourishing in prison. Barely six weeks into his 14-year prison term, Blagojevich has become "the man" at prison where he has made friends with his cell mates and earned a number of fans among the inmates.
Fox News reports that the convicted felon now spends his times washing pots and pans, lifting weights, and looking forward to teaching Shakespeare, Greek mythology, and philosophy in the library to fellow prisoners.
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Oct '11
Re: How to Thrive in Prison
A liberal's version of heaven: where all things are provided by the government for "free".
May '10
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Except the curriculum has DWMs on offer instead of deconstructing feminist poets and whatnot which would be what one would expect in lib heaven.
Apr '11
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Well good for him. I can only hope that Eric Holder adjusts just as well.
Oct '10
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Name recognition seems to have a favorable result in some places.
A place should be found where no one cares who he is. Like Chino.
Dec '10
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Sounds like constructive behavior to me. Maybe the sinner is redeeming himself. Till proven otherwise, should we not give him the benefit of the doubt?
Sep '10
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It's the hair. You can hide a file in that 'do.
Jan '11
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Alan, do you know anything about this guy? He's hardly been repentant in any kind of sincere way, at least publicly.
Feb '12
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Like a duck to water. It sounds like he may have found his true calling (seriously-- that's where Colson found his).
Dec '10
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He was clearly a corrupt public official. He's now paying his debt to society. Many men need to be brought thoroughly low in order to find a higher calling in life. All I'm saying is that if he is conducting himself in a constructive manner, then we owe it to him, and ourselves, to give him the benefit of the doubt, especially since he is doing the time.
Apr '11
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He was an amateur boxer so will probably fair OK in fights. He has a JD from Pepperdine and worked as a prosecutor so if he choses, like G. Gordon Liddy, to become a jailhouse lawyer for his fellow inmates he will likely be very popular.
Feb '12
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He's got the one thing he truly loves -- a captive audience.
Mar '11
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Alan Weick
He was clearly a corrupt public official. He's now paying his debt to society. Many men need to be brought thoroughly low in order to find a higher calling in life. All I'm saying is that if he is conducting himself in a constructive manner, then we owe it to him, and ourselves, to give him the benefit of the doubt, especially since he is doing the time. · 1 hour ago
Alan, I try really hard to find the good in everybody, but three of the twenty counts Rod Blagojevich was charged with involved trying to shake down Children's Memorial Hospital. He was convicted of all three.
Sometimes, the quality of mercy is strained. Sometimes it just snaps.
Apr '11
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I heard it was Faust, not Shakespeare he's gonna be teaching. Philosophy? Lemme guess. Machiavelli?
Nov '10
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maureen dirienzo may be right, but I must admit...I was a little happy today when I read that Blago would teach Greek mythology. It's kind of divine in its irony.
Honestly, I have no opinion about Blago. He's guilty because the jury said so. I'm from Philadelphia where, the day after the PA primary, this was a local headline:
DeWeese wins an election, draws a prison sentence.
Politics. What's not to love?
Feb '11
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Why wouldn't a con man do well among the cons?
Aug '10
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It doesn't sound all that different from Conrad Black's experience.