ROCHESTER, Minnesota — Colt McAbee keenly feels the irony of his living situation.

The former Georgia and Tennessee sheriff’s deputy and onetime prison guard now wears a different uniform from the ones he pinned his badge to for seven years — tan work clothes issued to inmates at the Federal Medical Center run by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

“It’s ironic I sit here on this side of the fence,” McAbee, 31, of Unionville, Tennessee, told a visitor in one of the prison’s sterile conference rooms.

While the park-like surroundings on this serene campus look comforting, McAbee no longer has the freedom to enjoy them as he could have in the world he knew prior to Jan. 6, 2021.

“They sure gave him a lot of time,” a prison guard remarked on the walk to meet McAbee. He looked down and shook his head.

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