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What prison life could be like for convicted fixer Michael Cohen.

Could Micheal Cohen could end up at one of the cushiest Club Fed prisons?

CNN took a look at Otisville Federal Correction Institution – also known as “the castle behind bars”– and where President Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen wants to spend his three year prison sentence. 

Otisville typically confines white collar criminals as well as is well-known for same.  In fact, the fictional Wall Street raider Gordon Gekko “served” his time at Otisville.

 

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Otisville features both medium and minimum security facilities for roughly eight hundred guests of the Feds as well as is known to be a comfortable place to serve one’s sentence.

Recreational facilities include basketball, softball, tennis and even bocce ball.

This Club Fed also has two libraries.

One is a legal library and the other a general reading library.

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And as for dining, the food is at least several cuts above typical institutional prison fare.  Items served include turkey bacon, herbal tea and raw almonds, matzo ball soup and even gefilte fish.

Otisville also hosts Seder as well as provides other religious services to accommodate Jewish inmates.  As such, Otisville is thus highly sought by religious Jews as a prison to serve out their sentences.

And as regards purported family man Michael Cohen, Otisville is roughly seventy miles outside of New York City and thus makes for an easy trip for his family to visit him during visiting hours.

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