http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/time_off_for_good_behavior Comments for "Time off for good behavior" en http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/time_off_for_good_behavior <!-- Begin check for Blog Icon --> <!-- End check for Blog Icon --> <!-- Begin check for Teaser Toggle --> <div class="field-item"><p>Good behavior could shorten former House Speaker Jim Black&#39;s 63-month prison sentence by 15 percent, or nine and a half months. </p><p>Black would likely want to serve his sentence in a federal prison camp, which have dormitories, no fences and relatively few guards, reports Joe Neff.</p><p> The closest one to Charlotte is on Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, AL, where many of the inmates work on the base.</p><p>A closer option is the federal correctional institution at Butner, north of Durham. Security is higher there, with a double fence around the prison. Black would likely live in a dormitory and have an opportunity to work.</p></div> <div class="node-blog-teaser-footer"> <div class="node-blog-teaser-comments"><a href="http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/time_off_for_good_behavior#comment"><img src="http://www.newsobserver.com/images/front_new/icon_discussion.gif" width="11" height="7" border="0" /> Comments (0)</a> <!-- If permissions, display edit link at end of teaser --> <!-- End edit link code --> </div> </div> <!-- End check for Teaser Toggle --> <!-- BEGIN AUDIO ATTACHMENT CODE --> http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/time_off_for_good_behavior#comment Jim Black Under the Dome Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:28:41 -0400 bkrueger 1373 at http://projects.newsobserver.com