Madoff Arrives at Federal Prison in North Carolina

The swindler Bernard L. Madoff arrived at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., on Tuesday to start serving a 150-year sentence.A spokeswoman for Federal Bureau of Prisons, Linda Thomas, said Mr. Madoff arrived at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex on Tuesday morning, after a brief stay at an Atlanta prison while in transit from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.

Mr. Madoff, 71, has a projected release date of Nov. 14, 2139, assuming he gets early release credit for good behavior while in prison. He is listed in Bureau of Prisons records as prisoner No. 61727-054.

Mr. Madoff pleaded guilty in March to fraud charges after he admitted that he ran a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out thousands of investors and ruined charities.

Mr. Madoff had requested that he be kept in a federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., and Judge Denny Chin, who presided over the case, had recommended that he stay in the Northeast.

The Butner Federal Correctional Complex, located about 45 miles northwest of Raleigh, includes two medium-security facilities, a low-security facility and a hospital, according to the Bureau of Prisons Web site. Within the federal prison system, it is perhaps best known for its hospital facility to treat elderly or ill prisoners.

Among the prison’s other inmates are the founder of Adelphia Communications, John Rigas, and Mr. Rigas’s son Timothy, who were found guilty of securities fraud in 2004 .....