(CHICAGO) Former Ald. Sandi Jackson is starting her prison sentence this week — likely on Tuesday — with her time to be served at a minimum-security camp in Alderson, West Virginia.
Her husband, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., completed his prison sentence on Sept. 18, finishing up his last weeks of time in home confinement at their DuPont Circle neighborhood home in northwest Washington, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
The sentencing judge ordered Sandi Jackson to report to prison 30 days after the release of Jackson Jr. The Jacksons were sentenced to staggered prison terms so one parent would remain home to care for their son and daughter.
A source confirmed to the Sun-Times that Sandi Jackson will be reporting to Alderson, a facility with 1,031 inmates in southern West Virginia.
In 2013, Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty to looting $750,000 from his campaign fund, which the couple spent on items ranging from lavish trips to mundane sundries. Specifically, Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit false statements and mail and wire fraud.
Sandi Jackson at the same time pleaded guilty to filing a false federal income tax return and was sentenced to one year in prison.
Even when Sandi Jackson was the 8th Ward alderman in Chicago, the Jackson children attended — and continue at — a private school in Washington.
The Illinois Democrat, who represented the 2nd Congressional District anchored on Chicago’s South Side and southern suburbs, was sentenced originally to 30 months. His time served was cut, most likely because of good behavior and completion of a substance-abuse program.
In all, Jesse Jackson Jr. served 23 months. He entered a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, on Oct. 29, 2013. He was transferred to a minimum security section of a prison complex in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 4, 2014. He was transferred to a Baltimore halfway house on March 26.
