'Scary part is the unknown': Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway begins federal prison

[TexasTowelie]

'Scary part is the unknown': Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway begins federal prison sentence


Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is now Federal Inmate No. 57553-177.

And just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, he officially became a resident of West Texas — Big Spring, to be precise, home of the low-security federal correctional institute and prison camp where Caraway will spend at least part of the 56 months to which District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn sentenced him last month.

Caraway, who pleaded guilty in August to accepting about $450,000 in bribes and kickbacks from the men responsible for the downfall of bus-and-crossing-guard agency Dallas County Schools, turned 67 one week ago. And for the first time in all those years, he will live somewhere other than Dallas. Big Spring is about 300 miles west of Dallas, on the road to El Paso.

The beginning of the prison sentence is ends a months-long saga for Caraway, long one of Dallas' most prominent politicians. Lynn was prepared at last month's sentencing hearing to have him immediately taken into custody and driven to prison. She told him before the sentencing hearing to bring with him the breathing machine he wears at night.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-city-hall/2019/05/07/scary-part-unknown-former-dallas-mayor-pro-tem-dwaine-caraway-begins-federal-prison-sentence

[Chin music]

1. Don't do illegal shit.

That way you don't wind up in a dorm room prison. I bet his stay is a dream compared to some.