Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen headed to one of ‘America’s cushiest prisons’

President Trump’s disgraced ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is set to report to a federal prison considered one of the “cushiest” in the United States, where his fellow inmates will include celebrities.

Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, violating campaign finance law, tax fraud and lying on a bank loan application, asked to be sent to Otisville in New York to serve his three-year sentence.

He'll join such inmates as Billy McFarland, the promoter of the doomed Fyre Festival, and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, the former cast member of the reality show Jersey Shore.

Otisville, just an hour outside New York City, has sometimes been viewed as a preferable prison option for inmates convicted of white-collar crimes.

In 2009, Forbes named it one of "America's 10 cushiest prisons".

Otisville has nearly 838 inmates. The prison includes a detention centre, where 726 inmates are housed, and an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp with 112 inmates, according to its website.

Other inmates include Sholam Weiss, a businessman who was convicted of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering in connection to the collapse of National Heritage Life Insurance Company in 1999.

Celebrity financial adviser Kenneth Ira Starr has also spent time at FCI Otisville after pleading guilty to carrying out a $US33 million scheme to defraud clients.

At FCI Otisville's detention centre, the daily schedule begins at 6 am with a wake-up call and lights on, and days are made up of a series of meals, work calls, unit sanitation and leisure time activities. Lights out is at 11.30pm.

Inmates are allowed 12 visiting points per month, with a visit on a weekday counting as one point and on holidays or weekends as two points.

The satellite camp is more lenient. The camp has a number of recreational activities: Weights, cardio equipment, bocce ball and horseshoes. The camp has a basketball court, handball court, tennis area, baseball field, and running and walking areas.

Given its proximity to New York's sizable Jewish population, the commissary includes a number of kosher foods, including matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, beef cholent and rugelach.

A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons, which designates inmates, did not respond to CNN’s requests for comment. The agency generally does not confirm inmate locations until they are in custody.

Although he was originally set to begin his sentence on March 6, Cohen was granted a two-month delay and will report to prison on May 6.