By: E&P Staff Judith Miller, in just her first hours in jail after refusing to "sing" for the special prosecutor, has already bonded with one of her guards at the Alexandria (Va.) Dentention Center over a certain aging crooner.
"There is a fellow Neil Diamond fan who is a corrections officer," she told fellow New York Times reporter Lorne Manly. "We've already had a serious discussion" about a concert she will have to miss. Among Diamond's hits: "Solitary Man."
As E&P
first reported on Wednesday, Miller's new quarters, where she is serving a likely four month sentence, is considered a somewhat "progressive" jail, with no bars, though still a maximum-security facility. But Manly reports that Miller indicated to her lawyers that it seemed overcrowded and that she was told "she would be sleeping on the floor last night because of a shortage of beds."
Still, the staff there was "extremely professional and very courteous," she said from jail.
After spending about a day in the receiving area, she was moved into the general population of 450 inmates on Thursday, the Times reports.
Inmates may make unlimited collect calls and have radios and CD players in their cells, the Times says. Miller has to wear a green or brown jumpsuit with the word "prisoner" on the back. She can receive visitors on most weeknights and during the days on weekends.
One of her fellow inmates: convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
Miller's lawyers declined yesterday to outline the next legal moves for their client, which appear limited.
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