Martha Stewart Living. In Prison.

The Washington Post takes a look at the facility where Martha Stewart will serve her jail sentence for lying about crimes the government admitted it couldn't prove were committed:

"There's a tremendous loss of control. Your life is regimented from when you get up to what you wear to what belongings you can have," said white-collar defense attorney Michael Kendall.

Stewart also may find herself under constant scrutiny from longer-term prisoners seeking to curry favor with the guards by reporting potential infractions, said Todd A. Bussert, a New Haven, Conn., lawyer who specializes in post-conviction work. "She's going to have a tougher time than most," he said.

Alderson was founded in 1927. The federal government had found itself with a large number of female inmates thanks to laws that made a federal crime of prostitution targeting military bases. Over the years, it has housed such well-known women as Holiday, who served time for illegal drugs and worked in the prison's garment factory, and Iva "Tokyo Rose" D'Aquino, the notorious World War II propagandist. Before the prison was converted to a lower-security camp in 1988, it housed a higher-security unit that held the two women who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane Moore.
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Both Fromme and Moore attempted to escape before they were transferred elsewhere. But they and most other inmates who have walked away were easily recaptured in this isolated area that lost its Amtrak passenger service in 2001 and has only limited air service nearby.

That isolation is why West Virginia was not on the multimedia entrepreneur's list of preferred prisons. When Stewart volunteered earlier this month to serve her time while continuing to appeal her conviction for lying about her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock, she asked to be assigned either to Danbury, Conn., or Coleman, Fla. But the Florida federal prisons have been hit hard by the hurricane season, and Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley said Alderson, Coleman and Danbury all are over capacity.