TEXARKANA, Taxas, (WGNO) – Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reported to prison Monday.
Nagin was convicted on corruption charges in July for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
Monday afternoon, Nagin joined his fellow inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution Texarkana in Texarkana, Texas.
FCI Texarkana is a low-security prison about 70 miles north of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Notable inmates at the facility include:
Samuel Mullet, Sr. a leader of an ultraconservative Amish sect. convicted in 2012 for masterminding home invasions where he forcibly cut the beards and attempted to shame mainstream members of the community.
And former Backstreet Boys and NSYNC impresario who pleaded guilty in 2008 to orchestrating a Ponzi scheme.
At the time of sentencing U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan recommended Nagin serve his time at a minimum security federal detention center in Oakdale, Louisiana, currently home to former Rep. William Jefferson, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, and former Enron CEO Andrew Fastow.
