In Prison, Just Another Joe (Nacchio)

Should Joe Nacchio report to a federal prison in Pennsylvania as expected Tuesday, the former Qwest chief executive will be strip-searched and issued a green button-up shirt and matching pants.

He'll get a pair of shoes, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a razor, a bar of soap and laundry detergent.

Within two to three hours, the 59-year-old Brooklyn native will have a "bunkie," an inmate with whom he'll share a cubicle on a floor of cubicles.

Two to three days later he'll have been assigned a prison job that pays between 12 and 40 cents an hour, likely cleaning a bathroom or serving food.

"It's going to sink on him that he's not important anymore," said Jimmy Tayoun, a former Philadelphia politician convicted of bribery who spent more than three years at Schuylkill. "No one cares who he is."