A disgraced former southern Illinois sheriff ordered last month to spend life behind bars for trafficking marijuana and a foiled plot to have witnesses against him killed has new digs - a high-security federal prison in central Florida.

Raymond Martin's one-time badge as sheriff of Gallatin County has given way to inmate number 08191-025 at the Coleman II prison, about 50 miles northwest of Orlando, Fla.

Forty-eight-year-old Martin was sentenced in Benton to life behind bars after being convicted last year of 15 charges, including marijuana trafficking and witnesses tampering.

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