Ian 'Whitey' MacDonald: Ian Jackson MacDonald

Conditional Sentence Dept: Ian Jackson MacDonald, 73, has been serving a conditional sentence in a Winnipeg nursing home since he pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiracy to import narcotics, in a case that dates back to 1980. Ian 'Whitey' MacDonald, seen in a -TV interview in May, is serving a conditional sentence for drug smuggling that includes 24-hour house arrest in a Winnipeg nursing home, according to CBC. MacDonald has 10 months remaining in his sentence, but doctors have estimated that he only has months to live and family members of a terminally ill ex-fugitive, who is serving his sentence in Manitoba in a decades-old drug smuggling case, say they have new information that could persuade authorities to let him go back to the United States to die. Members of his family have been lobbying Canadian and U.S. justice authorities in recent months to let MacDonald who has terminal prostate cancer and other medical problems return to Pennsylvania, where his wife currently lives. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.