Millionaire celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart had hoped to spend her prison time closer to her family and attorneys or in Florida, but instead will be incarcerated at a remote West Virginia prison camp.
Stewart, convicted in March of lying to investigators about a stock sale, had asked to serve her five-month prison term in Danbury, Conn., close to her 90-year-old mother and her home in Westport. But a source familiar with the government's decision told the Associated Press Federal Prison Camp Alderson was selected because it was more remote and less accessible to the media than Danbury or Stewart's second choice of Coleman. Those prisons also had more serious overcrowding issues. The Coleman prison, for example, is crowded with inmates moved from other Florida prisons because of the recent hurricanes.
Stewart, 63, who must report to Alderson by 2 p.m. Oct. 8. "I look forward to getting this behind me and to vigorously pursuing my appeal."
Stewart will be on track to be released from prison in early March, and then must serve five months under house arrest at her estate in upstate Bedford, N.Y.
