Things to Do in Denver When You're Rod
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Inside, Blagojevich's life will be strictly regimented. The impeached governor who was heard on the FBI wiretaps scoffing at earning a low six-figure salary will work a menial prison job, possibly cleaning bathrooms or doing landscape work, starting at 12 cents an hour.
Guards take a half dozen head counts a day, including several overnight, and Blagojevich will be told what to do rather than give orders to sycophant aides, as he did while Illinois' top executive.
"He's going to be doing a lot of, 'yes sir' and 'no sir,'" said Jim Laski, a former Chicago city clerk sentenced to two years in prison for corruption in 2006. "It's a humbling, humiliating experience. But you have to take it."
Blagojevich's fame outside won't do him any good inside, explained Jim Marcus, a Chicago-based defense attorney and former prosecutor. "You say you were once the governor of Illinois no one gives hoot," Marcus said. "Prisoners are going to say, 'You're in the same boat as me, pal. Now go clean the toilets.'"
I agree with many that the length of the sentence is excessive but this is one guy who really needs a dose of comeuppance.