Marc Emery transferred to prison further south in US
By Nelson Daily Staff
BC’s “Prince of Pot” was shipped last week to the D. Ray James Correctional Facility in Folkstone, Ga., a low-security federal prison holding mostly non-U.S. citizens.
In a Nov. 17 letter to his wife Jodie Emery posted on a prison blog, longtime marijuana activist Marc Emery said he was supposed to be sent to a federal institution in California “but the [Bureau of Prisons] has changed it to send me as far away from you as possible.”
The 2,900-capacity jail is privately owned by the GEO group, which operates it for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Emery is serving a five-year U.S. prison term for mailing marijuana seeds south of the border.
