Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Monday completed a precipitous fall from grace, arriving at a federal prison in east Texas to begin a 10-year sentence for bribery and fraud committed while he was in office.

Nagin arrived at Federal Correctional Institution Texarkana only minutes before the noon deadline to report for the start of his prison term. The former mayor steered his white Ford Focus past news cameras staked out along the two-lane road across from the prison and pulled into the parking lot, footage from KSLA-TV showed.

Nagin, accompanied by his wife, Seletha, sons Jarin and Jeremy and his teenage daughter, lingered briefly inside the car, then walked toward a guard house at the minimum security prison.

Nagin was approached by a prison staff member near the steps to the guard house, where he stopped and embraced his family members. As they walked back to the parking lot, Nagin could be seen raising his arms as the guard passed a metal detector-wand over his body. Nagin carried no luggage or possessions.

Nagin's family pulled out of the parking lot soon after, again ignoring reporters along the highway. By Monday afternoon, he was listed on the federal Bureau of Prisons website as inmate No. 32751-034.

The Bureau of Prisons operates a low-security prison at the Texarkana facility with an adjacent minimum security camp. Bureau spokesman Chris Burke said Nagin reported to the minimum security camp.

A jury in February convicted Nagin on 20 of 21 counts of bribery, fraud and money laundering in connection with a kickback scheme involving city contractors.

Nagin will be eligible to spend his prison term at the minimum-security camp at Texarkana, about three hours from his current home in Frisco, Texas. That home is in foreclosure, according to court records filed by Nagin as he requested a court-appointed attorney to handle his appeal.

Nagin had made $400,000 per year as a Cox Cable executive before he was sworn in as mayor in 2002, and took a severe pay cut for the duration of his two terms in office.

He said at the time that his family was financially prepared to weather the drop in his income. But once in office, he began leaning on city contractors to drum up business for his son's granite countertop business, and a technology vendor and a construction contractor provided him with lavish vacation trips for him and his family, in exchange for multimillion-dollar city contracts.

After he left office in 2010, Nagin self-published a memoir and tried to leverage his mayoral experience into a career as a motivational speaker and consultant. Dogged by his administration's scandals and his dismal approval ratings, those prospects had been dim even before he was indicted in 2013.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan before he was sentenced in July, Nagin's wife said he had been unable to find work, and the family was collecting food stamps to make ends meet. On financial forms he submitted last week in order to be appointed a public defender to handle his appeal, Nagin said he had $23.65 in his bank account.

Nagin reported to prison the week after his former technology chief and deputy mayor, Greg Meffert, was sentenced to 21/2 years, for his role in the corruption. Meffert had faced a possible eight years but prosecutors urged a lighter sentence and praised his cooperation in the case against Nagin and others.

Another key figure who was convicted in the case, technology vendor Mark St. Pierre, last week won a reduction of his original sentence of 171/2 years. Because he helped prosecutors after he was convicted, St. Pierre's sentence was cut to five years.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.