Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman sent to solitary confinement.

[elleng]

'Former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman was sent to solitary confinement this week at the Louisiana facility in which he is imprisoned on political corruption charges, according to his son Joseph Siegelman.

Siegelman, 70, was quoted extensively in a Washington Post article this week on former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell, whose 2014 conviction on public corruption charges was reviewed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

[As McDonnell awaits Supreme Court, another governor watches from prison]

Siegelman was transferred to solitary confinement at the federal correctional institution at Oakdale, La., on Monday after the story was posted online, according to his son, who said he found the timing suspicious.

But Bureau of Prison officials, who refused to confirm that the former governor was in solitary confinement, said that there was no link.

“The allegation that Mr. Siegelman was punished for talking to a reporter is false,” a spokesman for the bureau said in an emailed statement. “Due to confidentiality concerns, we cannot speak specifically about disciplinary matters of a particular inmate.”'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/29/former-alabama-governor-don-siegelman-sent-to-solitary-confinement/?tid=ss_fb


WANT MY VOTE? PROMISE you'll grant him a pardon the day you're sworn in, THAT will do it for me.

[thereismore]

1. What the fuck is going on?! Obama please show me something!!!

[elleng]

2. Some weird crap's been going on,

from Day 1.

[floriduck]

3. Agree. There's no excuse for Obama not to pardon him. None!

[CobaltBlue]

4. Up North…

While this is happening: Michigan governor Rick Snyder—who is responsible for the man-made creation of poising the water for thousands in Flint, Michigan—is still in office.

[guillaumeb]

5. Another victim of Karl Rove's dirty tricks.

As was the US population après Bush.

And the Iraqis and Afghanis.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Jesus Christ ! This is HORRENDOUS. Murderers have it better. What the

fuck Obama ! And I have never cursed you - but I am right now!

Get the poor man some relief. I worked with him on the Jimmy Carter campaign and he is a good man. This just makes me want to throw up.

[Photographer]

7. Hell, if he'd only been a pedophile with multiple vics he'd be out by now.

This is way more than rotten in Denmark.

[Eric J in MN]

8. Obama should issue an executive order banning solitary

...in federal prisons.

He should also pardon Don Siegelman, who was railroaded by the corrupt George W. Bush administration.

[scottie55]

9. His Only Crime Was Being A Democrat

In Red Bastardland.

Don Siegelman.

America's REAL political prisoner.

Political Corruption My Ass.

[scottie55]

10. Obama Screwed Siegelman Just As Hard As Bush

How many Attorney's General demanded justice on this bullshit kangaroo case?

Hundreds?

Obama (crickets chirping)

If I am elected president, and Obama gets jailed for life from doing no crime, I will not pardon him. Ever.

Rot forever Don/Barack.

[Chan790]

11. That's really the part that confuses me.

There's no chance Obama pardons him...the Obama administration DoJ has gone after him as hard as the Bush DoJ ever did and has aggressively opposed his motions and legal efforts at reviewing or overturning his sentence.

It seems pretty clear that Obama wants Siegelman to stay where he is and his sentence upheld...but I just don't know why. It doesn't make much sense unless he has reason to believe Siegelman isn't a political prisoner and the charges were legitimate. I can't see how he could believe that.

It all makes my head