Monica Conyers Goes to Federal Prison

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - The dethroned Monica Conyers has officially turned herself into a federal prison in West Virginia. However, according to a handbook and a woman that served time there, it’s not so bad.

There are no cells, no fences and no bars on the windows at ’Camp Cupcake’, which is better known as Alderson Federal Prison Camp. It sits in a scenic and rather peaceful region of West Virginia.

It’s now home sweet home for Conyers, who pled guilty for accepting bribes in return for her support in a Synagro sludge contract.

She tried pulling her guilty plea and delaying her sentence, but the judge wasn’t having it.

FOX 2 tried speaking to Conyers Thursday for any parting thoughts. Instead, she snapped pictures of the crew and slammed the door. Maybe she plans to hang them in her new living quarters that will be complete with washers, dryers, microwaves, hair dryers and curling irons.
Maybe while she’s there, Conyers will join some self help groups for cosmetology, aerobics, a positive mental attitude or even anger management.

FOX 2 spoke to Valencia Williams back in 2004. She told us about the four years she served there for counterfeiting. She says all of the accommodations may be true, but it’s still no walk in the park.

’You’re away from your home. You’re away from your family, and you’re following rules and orders,’ said Williams.

If Martha Stewart could handle it, so should Monica Conyers. However, she may want to stay out of the kitchen.

’It’s when you first go in there; kitchen is definitely a place that broke me down. It was like putting Whitney Houston in McDonalds,’ Williams said.

Each day, Conyers will also have to perform some work duties, but when she’s done, she can watch some television, go to the chapel and even play some volleyball. Curfew, thought, is at 10:00 p.m., and she’ll have 37-months to get used to it.