Sen. Brownback goes to prison

Okay, I got your attention. No, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), a likely candidate for president in 2008, did not get sentenced to prison. However, he did spend Friday night among inmates, and he admits he didn't sleep well, in a cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in town of Angola.

That prison is best known for the scenes filmed there for the film Dead Man Walking.

From AP:

Brownback, who also has stayed overnight at a Kansas prison and at a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C., said his night at Angola was a "little rough." One of the inmates on his cell block was a hit man for a drug cartel. Another was a serial rapist serving 19 life sentences.

Pretty gutsy stuff. The man from tiny Parker, Kansas has some backbone in him.

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