One year after Bernard Madoff’s arrest for his collosal Ponzi scheme, the WSJ has an interesting look at his current life as Inmate No. 61727-054 at the medium-security prison at Butner Federal Correctional Complex.
Madoff, now 5 months into a 150-year sentence, lives with a cellmate named Frank and spends his days doing things like playing bocce, chess and checkers, and scrubbing pots and pans in the prison kitchen. He and his fellow inmates are awoken at 6:00 a.m. and report for mandatory work duty by 7:30 a.m. Madoff has worked maintenance jobs at Butner, which “pay” between 12 cents and $1.15 an hour.
