Life for Martha after prison...still a prison?
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NY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Martha Stewart is out of prison, but she still has to live by the feds'
rules.
The domestic diva will have to report to a probation officer within 72
hours of her release, and can forget about plans to tend her garden.
"She's on lockdown and home confinement," said Christopher Stanton,
chief U.S. probation officer in Manhattan.
"Home confinement means home confinement," he added. "So, no, she would
not be allowed to garden."
According to her magazine, Stewart was "ready to get planting, having
ordered her seeds and made extensive to-do lists."
Instead, Stewart's schedule will be topped by the meeting with her
probation officer, where she will be issued an electronic monitoring
bracelet.
Then she will be allowed to leave her Bedford farmhouse in Westchester
for up to 48 hours a week. But the media darling still won't be going
out for cappuccino or stopping by the movie theater.
Her jaunts will be limited strictly to work, religious services,
grocery shopping and medical treatment.
"On exceptions, there are no exceptions," Stanton said. "She can only
leave for those reasons."
Luckily for Stewart, she still will be able to get plenty of work done
without running afoul of Uncle Sam's do's and don'ts.
She is free to work as much as she likes inside her farmhouse and can
use computers and other devices to communicate with her far-flung media
empire.
She can work on her magazine and her upcoming reality TV show, a
spinoff of Donald Trump's "The Apprentice."
The tough rules will remain in place for the duration of her five
months of home confinement, stretching into August.
Her beloved tender greens may be impossible to grow by then - but
Martha's green thumb just may coax some tomatoes in the late-summer
heat.