Martha Stewart Going to W.Va. Prison
Wed Sep 29, 2004 01:34 PM ET
By Paul Thomasch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Homemaking icon Martha Stewart will serve her five-month jail sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale at a minimum security prison in West Virginia she said on Wednesday.
The federal judge who sentenced Stewart, who is due to report to prison by 2 p.m. (EDT) on Oct 8., had recommended she serve her jail term at either Danbury, Connecticut, or Coleman, Florida.
But the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has instead decided that Stewart will serve the prison sentence at a minimum security facility in Alderson, West Virginia, known locally as "Camp Cupcake."
"While I had hoped to be designated to a facility closer to my family and more accessible to my appellate attorneys, I am pleased that the Bureau of Prisons has designated me so quickly to FPC Alderson, the first Federal prison camp for women in the United States," Stewart said in a statement.
"I look forward to getting this behind me and to vigorously pursuing my appeal," she added.
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