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Detroit — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was convicted of shaking down city contractors, will experience a different type of shakedown as inmate # 44678-039 at the federal prison in Milan.
"Searches, or shakedowns, are an important part of the total institutional security program," according to the prison's website. "Control of contraband, which has potential use in disturbances, riots, escape attempts, or violent acts against staff or other inmates, is essential in ensuring the safety of both staff and inmates, as well as ensuring the orderly running of this institution."
Kilpatrick and co-defendant pal Bobby Ferguson — inmate # 44950-039 — arrived at the prison 45 miles southwest of Detroit after a judge Monday ordered them imprisoned while awaiting sentencing in the City Hall corruption case.
It is unclear what type of cell Kilpatrick and Ferguson are occupying. In general, inmates awaiting sentencing are segregated from other prisoners, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke said.
Presentence inmates are typically housed in the same unit and are allowed to hang out in a common area during the day.
"The typical detention center has an open pod where inmates can come out of their cell for most of the day," Burke said.
They are not the only infamous inmates at Milan's history.
The prison housed underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he was sentenced to life in prison and sent to the Supermax prison in Colorado last year.
Spread over 300 acres, Milan has been the home for federal detainees and convicts ranging from notorious mobsters to longtime Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad to the former girlfriend of John Dillinger.
The low-security prison houses about 1,500 male inmates, including men who are awaiting sentencing.
The prison has an on-duty dentist, a laundry service and, for Kilpatrick, an infamous clothes horse, an in-house alteration service.
Breakfast is served at 6 a.m., lunch at 10:30 a.m., dinner at 4:30 p.m.
A typical breakfast menu includes oranges, oatmeal, breakfast cakes and skim milk.
For lunch, two chili dogs, mixed vegetables, a baked potato and apples.
On weekends, inmates eat brunch.
Inmates can spend up to $320 a month in the prison commissary. Kilpatrick can receive money via Western Union.
While at Milan, he can make phone calls but has to buy credits to use the inmate telephone system.
The prison has two chaplains, a barber shop, a gym and a recreation yard.
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