Former media baron Conrad Black is set to be fingerprinted and searched as he reports to a Florida prison Monday to begin serving a 6½-year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice.
Black will have to surrender to the federal prison, likely a low-security facility at the Coleman Federal Correction Complex in central Florida, by 2 p.m. local time, where he will become inmate number 18330-424.
"It's not the least bit stigmatizing," Black said in a phone interview with the National Post Sunday night.
"This is not a scary place. There's no violence there. I expect it to be somewhat boring."
He added: "It's a hell of a way to lose weight, but I'll lose weight."
Black will also be photographed, given a DNA test, a bed assignment and an orientation schedule. At Coleman, there are two fences and two layers of barbed wire surrounding the complex. Montreal-born Black, 63, will be housed in a dorm-like setting and share a cubicle with another man.
The living space of less than three square metres with two bunks per room is separated from adjacent cubicles by cinder-block walls.
He will also be given a job, which will earn him anywhere from 12 to 40 cents an hour.
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Black will have to surrender to the federal prison, likely a low-security facility at the Coleman Federal Correction Complex in central Florida, by 2 p.m. local time, where he will become inmate number 18330-424.
"It's not the least bit stigmatizing," Black said in a phone interview with the National Post Sunday night.
"This is not a scary place. There's no violence there. I expect it to be somewhat boring."
He added: "It's a hell of a way to lose weight, but I'll lose weight."
Black will also be photographed, given a DNA test, a bed assignment and an orientation schedule. At Coleman, there are two fences and two layers of barbed wire surrounding the complex. Montreal-born Black, 63, will be housed in a dorm-like setting and share a cubicle with another man.
The living space of less than three square metres with two bunks per room is separated from adjacent cubicles by cinder-block walls.
He will also be given a job, which will earn him anywhere from 12 to 40 cents an hour.
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