Shelton developer Robert Scinto reported to the Schulykill Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa. federal prison Tuesday, to serve his six month sentence for lying to federal agents amid their corruption probe in Shelton.
Scinto, 64, entered the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database at 12:15 p.m.
He’ll be trading his business suits for the prison-issued uniform of khaki shirt and khaki pants.
He will have to wake up at 6 a.m. each morning, and be required to work a prison job, such as in food service or mechanical services.
Scinto, a multi-million dollar developer, will make anywhere from 12 cents to 40 cents an hour while in prison.
Scinto had requested to be imprisoned at Schulykill, — a medium and minimum security prison about four hours away from Shelton.
Inmates at Schulykill have Internet privileges and can use prison-issued e‑mail addresses for 15 minute-periods of time on days they don’t work, according to the prison’s handbook.
The prison boasts a “limited, but very good” leisure library, which is open to inmates every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Schulykill has a recreation program, where inmates can play volleyball and flag football, and play games like checkers and dominoes.
Prisoners must be in their cells for five inmate counts each day — including three overnight.
They must work a prison job.
They can have visitors, but are not allowed contact with them beyond a hug at the beginning and end of the visit.
Visits and phone calls are limited.
During television privileges, inmates aren’t allowed to hold the remote control.
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Scinto is the third person to be imprisoned as part of the FBI corruption probe.
Former Shelton building inspector Elliot Wilson is serving a five-month prison sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. He was sentenced for lying to a grand jury, when he said he didn’t accept gifts and cash from developers.
Shelton developer James Botti is serving a six-year sentence at Morgantown, West Virginia, for his conviction at trial for corruption and money structuring charges.
Botti’s father, Peter Botti Sr., received a sentence of probation for helping James Botti structure cash deposits.
