Patrick Daley Thompson on prison life: ‘It was horrible, absolutely horrible’

“One of the requirements is you had to work. I worked as a custodian,” Patrick Daley Thompson testified Wednesday. One bright spot, he said, was tutoring a fellow inmate from the South Side who was trying to get a high school equivalency degree. (Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times file)

Former 11th Ward Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson argued Wednesday that he shouldn’t lose his license to practice law following his conviction last year for income tax fraud and lying to authorities.

But the hearing before a panel of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission also offered a glimpse of Thompson’s life behind bars during four months at Wisconsin’s Oxford federal prison.