Advice for Martha

Newsweek, June, 2003 by Daniel McGinn

If Martha Stewart sees jail time (a trial date was set last week), she'll likely be sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., one of the minimum-security "prison camps," nicknamed "Club Fed." In 1988 former Wall Street Journal reporter R. Foster Winans spent seven months there for insider trading. Now a writer and lecturer, he shared his institutional knowledge with NEWSWEEK's Daniel McGinn:

How many stars do you give it?

It isn't a club. It's like a military barracks--bunk beds, 70 or 80 to a room. It's just unbelievably boring. Most people there have nothing to do with white-collar crime. There was one guy there for pissing in a mailbox, which is a federal crime.

Is it worse than, say, a Motel 6?

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