Anthony Weiner In Prison: What Can He Expect?

NEW YORK, NY – Weeping Anthony Weiner probably doesn't have too much to cry about. The convicted sex offender is looking at a pretty cushy 21 months behind bars, experts said.

The disgraced congressman, who pleaded guilty in May to transferring obscene material to a minor, hung his head and cried in court Monday as he was told to report to federal prison on Nov. 6.

The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan said the judge has deferred to the Bureau of Prisons to assign him his new home, but that a decision on which facility will take him hasn't yet been made.

But it's likely to be a minimum security facility holding non-violent offenders, experts said

"It will be at some low level, country club-type facility," Hermann Walz, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, told NBCNews.com.

"They’re not full lockdown. This is not Attica. He would be in a minimum security prison." (For more on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

And, despite being a convicted sex offender – notoriously hated in prison – Weiner can expect to get a pretty easy time,

"He'll be with non-violent felons," Walz told NBC. "They tend to behave better there."

The Bureau of Prisons said minimum security prisons are also known as Federal Prison Camps. They have dormitories rather than cells and limited – or even no – perimeter fencing. Inmates often take part in off-site work programs, the BOP said.

Wiener admitted "sexting" with a 15-year-old in 2016.

"Anthony Weiner, a former Congressman and candidate for Mayor, asked a girl who he knew to be 15 years old to display her naked body and engage in sexually explicit behavior for him online," the acting U.S attorney for Manhattan Joon Kim said in a statement.

He will serve his sentence in a much more comfortable setting that Martin Shkreli, the Pharma Bro who was ordered held in the Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center earlier this month while he awaited sentencing on a securities fraud conviction. A judge revoked his bail after Shkreli offered to pay a bounty to anybody who got him a lock of Hillary Clinton's hair.

That detention center is notoriously bad, and was described as "third world" by a group of visiting judges in 2016.

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