A man in a red Dodge truck goes through Woody's Car Wash, putting his quarters into the machine, enjoying the normalcy that's now gone from Michael Vick's life. From star Falcons quarterback No. 7 to prisoner No. 33765-183, stuck serving a 23-month sentence over that barbed-wire fence and 40-foot wall, past the guards, and through the gates. He is PETA's public enemy No. 1, by far the most-talked-about man in the NFL over the last year. He's been transferred here to the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., 35 miles northwest of Kansas City, where they're used to superstar convicts. Hoping to create a sense of awe and fear in convicts, architects designed the prison to look like the U.S. Capitol. Its cells have housed a who's who of convicts, from Machine Gun Kelly to the Birdman of Alcatraz to Leonard Peltier. Over that fence and wall, past the guards and gates, it will probably be impossible for Vick to truly be treated like the other inmates. He will be asked for autographs and singled out for fights. He will be given first dibs on the weight bench and randomly told to get to the back of the line at supper time. Take it from someone who knows, the only other NFL player to spend time here. "He's got to just stay to himself and swallow it," says Byron "Bam" Morris, a Leavenworth prisoner during 2000-03 and a Chiefs running back in the late 1990s. "If you interact with everybody, eventually something's going to happen. http://www.ajc.com/falcons/content/sports/falcons/stories/2008/01/14/vickjail_0115.html What do they want to feel sorry for him? Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Poor baby :icon_cry: - maybe they should throw a couple pitbulls in his cell with him to keep him company!
