At sentencing, the judge recommended that Madoff be sent to a low- or medium-security prison in the Northeast. However, this decision is left solely up to the Bureau of Prisons. Madoff will have Hoelter’s recommendations to put forth if he’s given a chance to make his case .
Boesky served his time at the Lompoc Federal Prison, aka Club Fed West. Mike Milken served 22 months at a minimum-security prison in Pleasanton, California. Taubman spent his nine and a half months at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, getting medical care on the government dime. Taubman’s book, Threshold Resistance, contains some prison advice Madoff may find useful, such as making friends, keeping a pl...

At sentencing, the judge recommended that Madoff be sent to a low- or medium-security prison in the Northeast. However, this decision is left solely up to the Bureau of Prisons. Madoff will have Hoelter’s recommendations to put forth if he’s given a chance to make his case .
Boesky served his time at the Lompoc Federal Prison, aka Club Fed West. Mike Milken served 22 months at a minimum-security prison in Pleasanton, California. Taubman spent his nine and a half months at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, getting medical care on the government dime. Taubman’s book, Threshold Resistance, contains some prison advice Madoff may find useful, such as making friends, keeping a pleasant demeanor, and bringing reading material. I’d add one; don’t try to start a cigarette investment fund. Eventually, someone will invest a shiv.

You know I kind of think he would be more useful paying restitution to his victims than rotting in a jail at the taxpayers expense. He's not violent, and obviously, he's gonna be shunned or frowned upon wherever he goes. I'm just not seeing justice with this 100 + jail sentence. We're talking about a dude who is already ruined. He is a pauper. He will never again do business. From the innovative genius whose information technology in the 1960s became the basis of NASDAQ, he rose to the heights and fell to the depths where he will stay this way until death. He won't be able to be seen in public for the rest of his life without encountering scorn and derision from everyone around him.

Maybe t...

You know I kind of think he would be more useful paying restitution to his victims than rotting in a jail at the taxpayers expense. He's not violent, and obviously, he's gonna be shunned or frowned upon wherever he goes. I'm just not seeing justice with this 100 + jail sentence. We're talking about a dude who is already ruined. He is a pauper. He will never again do business. From the innovative genius whose information technology in the 1960s became the basis of NASDAQ, he rose to the heights and fell to the depths where he will stay this way until death. He won't be able to be seen in public for the rest of his life without encountering scorn and derision from everyone around him.

Maybe the idea of jail is punishment. I don't see how it can be a worse punishment than he would face on the outside. Madoff should write a book and use the proceeds to repay his victims. I guaran-damn-ty people would buy his book.

What do you think? Am I way off base?

I think that's a wonderful idea, with certain caveats.

While I certainly feel sympathy for anyone serving a life without parole sentence, Mr. Madoff has devastated so many trusting people and left them destitute, I would feel it a betrayal of his victims. But on the other hand, it would be fitting for him to attempt to make whatever restitution he could possibly make.

He could and should write an autobiography, that would be better than rotting in jail, and perhaps if he were to do that, it could inure to his benefit. He might
appeal his sentence in a few years, after he's made
restitution and he could possibly be paroled under "house arrest". I'm reticent to give him a pass on this, as i...

I think that's a wonderful idea, with certain caveats.

While I certainly feel sympathy for anyone serving a life without parole sentence, Mr. Madoff has devastated so many trusting people and left them destitute, I would feel it a betrayal of his victims. But on the other hand, it would be fitting for him to attempt to make whatever restitution he could possibly make.

He could and should write an autobiography, that would be better than rotting in jail, and perhaps if he were to do that, it could inure to his benefit. He might
appeal his sentence in a few years, after he's made
restitution and he could possibly be paroled under "house arrest". I'm reticent to give him a pass on this, as it sends the wrong message, and he must be held to account for his egregious deeds.