Interesting article on CLUB FED rules and guidelines:
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2002/09/novak.html
As a first-time felon, David Novak didn't know what to expect in prison camp. He worried that the experience would be like something out of The Shawshank Redemption, and he'd have to fight for his life. But he had also heard rumors about Club Fed and how white-collar criminals did not-so-hard time playing golf and tennis (which is untrue - they play basketball and softball). "Like a lot of first-time offenders, I was really confused," says Novak, who had owned and operated a flight-school prior to his mail-fraud conviction. "I expected the best and the worst."
After completing his nearly year long sentence, he wanted to give other first-time felons the sort of practical and candid advice that he wished he had gotten beforehand. He wrote a 50-page letter to his lawyer, hoping to give his clients an insider's perspective. That letter - and the journal that Novak kept at Eglin - inspired his self-published book, Downtime: A Guide to Federal Incarceration, and Davrie Communications, his consulting business. Prison camp, he tells clients, is neither The Shawshank Redemption, nor Club Fed. It's somewhere in between the two.....
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