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Kyle Hopkins
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Posted: May 8, 2008 - 10:46 am
Kohring and attorney John Henry Browne talk to the media after sentencing. (Bill Roth/ADN)
From Kyle at the courthouse --
“His behavior here didn’t strike me as nearly as egregious as the behavior that was displayed in other cases,” Sedwick said while handing down Kohring’s sentence.
Sedwick also said: “There can be no doubt that he knew what he did was wrong.”
There must have been some discussion of Kohring’s health and medical care while I was in the lobby, posting a blog item, because Sedwick said something about Kohring being able to get better medical and dental care – considering his finances – in prison than on the outside.
Kohring meets the press after the sentence was handed down. (Bill Roth/ADN)
2 May 8, 2008 - 12:04pm | Melzie
There is no parole with feds. They get 54 days of good time a year. They have to do 90% of their time before they go on a furlough and if they go on furlough there are exigent circumstances be it medical or some other emergency reason. If it is medical they have to pay their own medical costs. Yes they can go to a halfway house to transition out for their last 6 months. It is an option, not a requirement. They have to pay 25% straight off the top of any salary they earn while in a halfway house. They have two weeks to get a job if in a half way house. Don't get a job, go back to jail. They eventually can go on home confinement during that 6 month period but, they still have to pay 25% of their gross pay if they do. I was a federal case manager in a halfway house.
Medical care in prison is a joke. Especially federal prison.
He will do hard time because he is going to whine his whole time there about how innocent he is and how he was railroaded. Truse me, the "guys" don't like snivelers. He will be told in no uncertain terms to shut it.
His short sentence is a snap to the guys doing 15 to 20 years, and they don't like hearing how hard it is going to be on him to have this short time to do.
1 May 8, 2008 - 11:17am | jobereeves
Excellent, let's wrap up this issue by bringing the other two persons involved in all this corruption of our govenrment, Rick Smith and Bill Allen. Come on already, sentence these two yo-yo's to their prison sentence, equal or more for their part, they have contributed to many incidents of corruption by waving their big bucks. Allen and Smith should receive longer sentences for their multiple involvements that clearly show that they made 'Corruption" a fine art to achieve their results. Look how many they baited.
Bill Allen and Rick Smith have already been judged "guilty" but the Federal Gov't seems to be protecting them from their prison sentences. Let's end this and set them up in prison rooms next to Kott, Koring, and their other partners in this betrayal of Alaska Citizens for a long time.
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3 May 9, 2008 - 11:10am | valleycrabber
Tom Anderson Being Asaulted
There is now a rumor from another convict that Tom Anderson has been suffering assault recently at the Federal Penitentary in Sheridan, Oregon where he is currently serving out his sentence. Apparently, since learning late last month of Mr. Anderson being on the take while promoting private prisons, groups of inmates from the General Population have been repeatedly targeting Tom for asssault. God know what assault means in a Federal Prison. Lesil Mcguire did not return calls for comment.
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