Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown arrived at the Sumter County Women's Prison Camp on Monday to serve her five-year sentence.

Brown will start serving her prison sentence at a Sumter County women’s prison camp near the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex.

Brown, 71, was driven right into this prison complex and turned herself in and only saying a prayer with her pastor in those few moments beforehand.

"The last moments was she asked me to pray for her and we posed and I shared a word of prayer for her, know that she gave her some words of encouragement and told her to use her time here as a journey to impact others and inmates at this facility as well," said Bishop Kelvin Coberis.

Inmates are offered jobs as mechanics, landscapers, among other positions.

The women's prison camp is the lowest security facility on site. There are no bars on jail cells or fences around the camp.

Just last month, a jury found Brown, a former U.S. representative, guilty of taking money from a charity that was supposed to help poor students and using it as a personal slush fund. (File photo)

Both the U.S. District Court and the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied her request to delay her entry into prison.

Brown wanted to stay out of prison while she appealed the jury’s decision.

She says it was wrong for the trial judge to dismiss a juror who claimed the Holy Spirit told him she is innocent.

Brown, who represented a district that stretched from Jacksonville to Orlando at one point, served in Congress for more than 20 years before she lost the Democratic primary in 2016.

Local Jacksonville media reports Brown spent her last free day at a church on Sunday.

Former US Rep. Corrine Brown arrives at prison