That Leavenworth Mystique

A UPS van zooms along the four-lane road through the cold winter afternoon. A woman in a black jumpsuit jogs by to the soundtrack on her iPod, never even looking to her left at one of the country’s most notorious prisons.
A man in a red Dodge truck goes through Woody’s Car Wash, putting his quarters into the machine, enjoying the normalcy that’s now gone from Michael Vick’s life. From star Falcons quarterback No. 7 to prisoner No. 33765-183, stuck serving a 23-month sentence over that barbed-wire fence and 40-foot wall, past the guards, and through the gates. Read more...

By SAM MELLINGER The Kansas City Star