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Ex-Con Tells Bernie What Prison Will Be Like

If Bernie Madoff is unhappy in the Metropolitan Detention Center, he’s going to be really unhappy when he goes to actual prison in June. So says ex-con Anthony Papa, who tells him what to expect in this week’s Detroit News: “Your identity will be taken away when you are stripped naked and ordered to bend over and spread your butt cheeks. You will be forced to comply.” That said, Papa’s sentence ended in the nineties. As we understand it, everyone just knits shawls now. [Detroit News via Clusterstock]

Ex-Con Tells Bernie What Prison Will Be Like