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Patti Blagojevich Makes Prison Visit To Rod

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 15, 2012 6:20PM

Patti Blagojevich visited husband Rod in prison in Colorado since he reported to serve his 14-sentence on corruption charges. In a post on her Facebook page, Patti Blagojevich called the prison's visiting room "one of the saddest places on earth." She visited her husband, presumably with daughters Amy and Annie, and said "we were so happy to see him."

"All those little kids visiting their dads, it breaks you heart," she wrote.

Blagojevich has been adjusting to the caged life and. His former attorney Sam Adam, Jr. visited him in prison last month and said, while Blago isn't having a Bluth-like time of his life, his "affable" personality is helping him cope with the sentence. During a previous visit to see the former Illinois governor in April, his Blagojevich’s attorneys told a indicated he wasn’t happy about prison rules that only permitted his younger daughter to sit on his lap, while his older daughter was only allowed one hug.