Bannon to serve term in prison that inspired 'Orange is the New Black': report
Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon will not serve his prison sentence in one of the more highly-sought "Club Fed" facilities he'd hoped for.
Instead, CNN's Katelyn Polantz reported Monday, Bannon is headed to the same prison in Danbury, Connecticut, that housed the woman whose memoir inspired the hit Netflix series, "Orange Is the New Black."
"What are you learning about where Bannon might end up serving time behind bars?" asked anchor Jake Tapper.
"Well, Jake, it's an actual prison," said Polantz. "So Steve Bannon wanted to go to a 'Club Fed,' a prison camp, but that is not what is going to be possible in the federal system for him now that he has to serve this four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, refusing to be an interviewee or turn over documents to the House."
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The reason, she explained, is that he has additional charges pending in New York for his "We Build The Wall" fraud scheme, which means he is a "slightly higher security inmate than somebody who could be in a camp."
"So he's gonna be going to the prison in Danbury, Connecticut," said Polantz. "It houses lots of male inmates. It also ... houses some female inmates, including the woman that wrote previously, the memoir, 'Orange Is the New Black,' if people have heard of that before. But this low-security prison in Danbury, Connecticut, is — it is a place where there can be violent offenders in the prison facility, as well. It is certainly not where Steve Bannon wanted to go."
"And the other thing we know about this, Jake, is that his lawyers are trying to keep him out of prison, going to appeals courts, and they have even said in recent court filings that one of the reasons he should not have to go to prison this summer is because millions of Americans are looking to him for information on campaign issues, and that it will bar him from being a meaningful adviser in the ongoing national presidential campaign," Polantz added.
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