Detroit's locked-up former mayor is on the move, and Robert Snell tracks his whereabouts in The Detroit News.
It is the first time Kilpatrick has traveled outside the state during his long criminal career, which began in the Wayne County Jail in 2008, where he served three months for perjury. He then served 15 months under a state charge for violating the terms of his probation from the perjury charge.
Kilpatrick is likely to see the insides of a number of institutions over the next three decades in the federal system. His father, Bernard Kilpatrick, checked himself in to a minimum-security federal prison outside Dallas last week.
Snell writes:
Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was shipped to a federal prison in Oklahoma on Tuesday before being transferred to a permanent facility where he will serve a 28-year sentence for racketeering and corruption.
Kilpatrick is being housed temporarily at a federal transfer center in Oklahoma City, Okla., according to the Bureau of Prisons website. Prison officials would not say where they will transfer Kilpatrick to after leaving Oklahoma City.
Kilpatrick, 43, is scheduled to be released Aug. 1, 2037.
Kilpatrick was convicted of 24 charges including racketeering conspiracy in March after being accused of turning City Hall into a criminal enterprise.
His 28-year term was the longest public corruption sentence in U.S. history.
