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Blago Is Number 40892-424

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 6, 2012 3:30PM

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Nine days of freedom and counting for Rod Blagojevich.

Former Governor Rod Blagojevich is entering his final week of freedom this week and we've learned his federal prison number.

When Blagojevich surrenders to authorities to begins serving his 14-year prison sentence March 15, he'll be known as Inmate Number 40892-424. That number will follow him throughout the federal prison system and be printed on his clothes. (This also brings back memories of me stenciling my surname and the last four numbers of my Social Security number in the back of my Navy uniforms to make me easily identifiable to my superiors.)

Blagojevich will serve his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Englewood in Littleton, Colo., near Denver.

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