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Former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett will serve her sentence in the same jail as Sandi Jackson, Martha Stewart
Former Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett will report to Federal Prison Camp Alderson in West Virginia Monday to start serving her four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Former alderman Sandi Jackson and Martha Stewart also did time at the prison, which has been dubbed “Camp Cupcake.” Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty to her role in a CPS contract kickback scheme nearly two years ago. [Sun-Times]
