What is life like in a Federal Prison for inmates doing time for financial crime? Perhaps a snapshot of the daily routine I experienced will give you a feeling for the utter boredom of living a life where each month is mindlessly endured, day after day, and then triumphantly checked off on some tiny calendar kept somewhere, as the inmate tries to measure progress in what feels like an infinitely long stretch. Of course, I cannot hope to do more than give you the flavour of imprisonment, and more than watching a war movie will let you feel what it is like to really be on the receiving end of a rocket attack, but I trust that this will show you the futility of it all, of marking time in a place you don't want to be, with roommates you could do without, in an institutional system you profoundly dislike, as a defrocked professional in a sea of drug offenders.

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