Report: Conrad Black using cellmate as a butler

Former Hollinger International CEO Conrad Black, serving six and a half years for fraud and obstruction of justice, remains a snob behind bars, according to an article in the U. K. Daily Mail:

Prison sources told the Mail Black has been "stunned" by the lack of education of his fellow inmates.

"Conrad remains very snobbish, despite having the same daily routine as all the other prisoners," a source told the newspaper. "He said he was shocked by how uneducated most of his fellow inmates were."

"It was a surprising thing to say, given that many of his fellow prisoners are Hispanics and blacks from very poor communities who did not even graduate from senior school."

Black is expected to spend at least five years and eight months in jail, part of the 7,500-inmate population at the Federal Correctional Institution at Coleman, Fla., an hour's drive northwest of Orlando.

At one time, Hollinger International's U. S. subsidiary, American Publishing, owned The Carthage Press and the Neosho Daily News.