ATLANTA – A former federal judge was sentenced Friday to 30 days in prison for drug-related crimes involving a stripper.
Jack Camp was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan to the prison time, plus a year of probation and a $1,000 fine. Camp, 67, had asked Hogan to sentence him to probation and community service. Prosecutors had said Camp should serve between 15 days and six months in prison.
“He disgraced his position and himself and denigrated his office. I could not only give him a sentence of probation and spare him confinement,” Hogan said.
Camp resigned from the U.S. District Court in November after pleading guilty to a felony drug charge and two misdemeanors.
Camp said in court documents filed in February that his decades-long battle with depression and a bicycling accident in 2000 caused brain damage that led him to use drugs and start seeing the stripper. His attorneys said then “there is no punishment he will endure more painful than the guilt and shame he faces every day of the rest of his life.”