Phil Driscoll Prison Address
Jim Paris
you are a fan
Phil Driscoll # 41294-074
USP ATLANTA
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 150160
ATLANTA, GA 30315
Nomine
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>I thought it would be a nice thing to send Phil a letter of support if
> you are a fan
>
> Phil Driscoll # 41294-074
> USP ATLANTA
> U.S. PENITENTIARY
Tell him it was all his dead mother-in-law's fault.
That kind of "support" should cheer him up.
Aremick
(given the chance)...
Robert DeSavage
wrote:
>I would hope to come out of this experience a better trumpet player
>(given the chance)...
>
If he can't get hold of a trumpet, since it's a federal pen, I imagine
there's at least a pool table and a golf course for him to pass the
time away. 8-)
drmichae...@yahoo.com
Thank you.
Going to prison can be a very tramadic experience for anyone, and this
transition will not be easy for Phil. Being a celebrity inmate can
have both its advantages and disadvantages. Form my observation,
celebrity inmates are more closely watched and some can have a higher
social status in prison then "regular "inmates. Like on the outside of
prison, a star inside a prison is still just that, a star, and
inmates, wardens, guards and other staff can become awestruck at the
site of a celebrity who is down, which could give a celebrity inmate
special treatment.
"Phil, the warden would like to see you", etc.. Ask yourself this
question, were you a guard or an inmate and you had the chance to meet
a famous person in prison like Mike Tyson, where on the outside you
wouldn't have a chance to meet him, would you want to? I know that I
would. One thing that inmates and guards have a lot of is time, in
prison a day can seem like a year. Being a celebrity could also make
things tougher on Phil, with comments from inmates like
" so you're that hot shot trumpet player and singer, I bet you think
that you are special , don't ya?. Come here and I'll show ya something
special".
In my opinion from my experience, the worst part of prison for any
inmate is their loss of freedom, and their loss of contact with their
family in particular. Inmates who get regular visits from there
families seem to de better in prison, and seem to be better
disciplined (but not always). Not all inmates receive regular visits
from their families, and some never do. Some families do not visit
inmates because they hate the thought of going to a prison to visit a
person, others live far away or have lost touch with the inmate. Sadly
some inmates have no family, and many of these inmates simply give up
on life and become institutionalized, where they accept that they will
most likely spend their life in prison. Many institutionalized inmates
who are released commit crimes on purpose just to go back to prison
where they know that there basic needs like shelter and food and
medicine and clothing will be taken care of for them.
What Phil needs now is encouragement. On the good side, a year and a
day is not a very long time to do time. The prison classification
process can take about three months, 1/4th of Phils stay. Phil's
ministry will need a lot of prayer as this will effect Phils tv show,
booked concerts and ministry funding. Phil supports up to 25
employees, and many of these employees could be laid off. Also this
will be a great time for churches and fans of Phil Driscoll to give
JAMIE DRISCOLL a chance to minister to them. Jamie preaches, sings and
plays the trumpet. Jamie Driscoll is an excellent trumpet player who
has studied the trumpet from Phil, Tina Ericson and Roy Roman, three
excellent trumpet players/teachers.
Doing time is Phil's punishment. No, I do not think that Phil should
have served even one day for what he did, but I was not the judge. A
year will be over before we all know it, and then I pray that you will
all give Phil an honest chance at being restored and forgiven.
God bless you,
Dr. Michael Schmidt
THE loudest trumpet player in the world
drmichae...@yahoo.com
No golf courses here Bob:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Federal_Penitentiary
Phil ain't in "Kansas" anymore.
If I were an inmate I would not want to be sent to Atlanta Federal
Pen, it ain't a luxury camp.
Mikey
Robert DeSavage
If I were an inmate, I'd rather do my time in the brig aboard a Navy
vessel that's underway some 5, 6, or 7 hundred miles from the nearest
land. Three days in the brig is no different than three days for the
rest of the swabbies not in the brig. Either way, the brig is the same
as the rest of the crews quarters with the exception that the brig's
hatch has a lock on it. So what??? Neither can go out on the town on
liberty (for obvious reasons). In fact, being in the brig for three
days is a better deal. When the rest of the crew is standing in a long
chow line, the guys in the brig cut in front of the line. And if
you're a Navy musician, it's even all the better since the Marine
chasers that enjoyed the hospitality extended to them by the musicians
when they visited the band room would 'reciprocate' in kind. While
this might appear to be far fetched, it's really the truth. As said in
Orwell's Animal Farm, ""All pigs are equal but some are more equal
than others." It all depends where you are at the time.
j...@trompong.net
with his story:
"Escape from Alcatraz" and "Young Man with A Horn"
Jeff
Robert DeSavage
It sure would be an adventure story about a trumpet player that teams
up with an inmate that took up accordion. Too bad though that Clint
Eastwood didn't take a few lessons from his late pal Pete Jolly. Then
the spin off movie would be a blockbuster adventure. 8-)
JoeGuy
"Robert DeSavage" <allegro69@(nospam)comcast.net> wrote in message
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catzz66
> what is phil in jail for?
>
>
Check Wikipedia. It has a thumbnail of the case.
Robert DeSavage
<johnsh...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>what is phil in jail for?
>
He got caught. Better for him if he were jailed for murder where he'd
be out in six months (if in prison at all) rather than twelve for tax
evasion.
Jeff
wrote:
>
> He got caught. Better for him if he were jailed for murder
Phil Driscoll murdered someone? Holy crap, I didn't hear about that.
nomine
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> what is phil in jail for?
He was convicted of two counts of tax evasion and one
count of conspiracy. He failed to report more than a
million dollars in income, evading paying more than
$128,000 in taxes. He used money given to his ministry
for personal use, and did not report it to the IRS. The
money was used to buy multiple lake homes, a Porsche,
eight cemetery lots, vacations, and other personal
expenses.
He was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, and
ordered to pay back less than $80,000 in evaded taxes.
With "good behavior," he can expect to be free after
about 100 days in clink.
Robert Ricks
taxes -and he apparently has assets where he could easily raise the $128 K?
Also, if he failed to report more than 1 million, then why is the tax bill
only 128K? Surely he isn't in the 12.8% bracket with 1 million? Yeah, this
won't help my trumpet playing----just curious how the courts came up with
the numbers.
"nomine" <sine-...@nomine.org> wrote in message
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nomine
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> about 100 days in clink.
Correction: about 9 months.
Robert DeSavage
Not at all. In the eyes of Uncle Sam, he did worse. He didn't declare
all his income and pay taxes on it. I wonder how much more it'll cost
the taxpayers to lock him up than what he actually owes Uncle.
drmichae...@yahoo.com
is far better than the food that goes onto those food trays that are
sent to the lockdown cells, the prison kitchen dining room food is
often too good, if you know what i mean, as inmates who can see just
who is getting which tray try to "hook up" there buddies who are in
the chow line. A good guard will spot this and put an end to it by
sending the inmate to the back of the chow line, and discipline the
inmate in the kitchen.
Sadly , the food in the kitchen dining room is often better than the
sack lunches that the inmates who are busting their butts working out
in the hot sun outside the walls of prison get. That needs to change,
a guy with an easy dorm job of a few hours of easy work each day gets
a better lunch than a guy on the outside work detail in the
blistering sun, that needs to change.
Mikey
drmichae...@yahoo.com
It would cost them less than half of that to house Phil.
A quick guess is that it would cost the US tax dollars around $40.00 a
day to house Phil.
Why?
Because Phil would not be an inmate requiring catostrophic care (AIDS
Patients, Heart Patients, Cancer patients/inmates etc. ) who drive up
the costs of prisons.
Jeff
wrote:
> > Phil Driscoll murdered someone? Holy crap, I didn't hear about that.
>
(Foghorn Leghorn voice) That was a joke, son.