Conrad Black To Report To Prison Today

Conrad Black was to report to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, a low security facility in Florida, to begin serving his nearly seven year sentence, after a judge refused to defer it in light of his appeal to the Seventh Circuit. The prison is near Orlando. Lord Black is entitled to during the weekends. He renounced his Canadian citizenship to take a British peerage, and commentators say he may have difficulty returning to Canada after he has served his sentence. He sent in a manuscript to his publisher at the last minute; its subject: apparently the collapse of his media empire and his trial.