April 1 (UPI) — Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced former lawyer who was convicted final month for killing his spouse and son, has been moved right into a protecting custody unit in a South Carolina jail, officers mentioned.
“He has been moved to statewide protecting custody at a maximum-security jail,” the South Carolina Division of Corrections said in a notice that Murdaugh’s processing is full.
The DOC’s Protecting Custody Assessment Board, comprised of safety and psychological well being consultants, met Thursday and really useful the classification for Murdaugh.
“Inmates on this unit have validated protecting issues and are positioned in a specialised unit to separate them from the overall inhabitants. Their location will not be disclosed for security and safety causes. This unit has 28 inmates at the moment,” the assertion reads.
“Murdaugh might be in a single eight by ten cell that incorporates a mattress, bathroom and sink. Inmates on this unit obtain all privileges afforded these within the common inhabitants inside this self-contained unit.”
Chrysti Shain, the spokesperson for the corrections division, advised CBS Information that Murdaugh will stay within the protecting custody unit for one 12 months at which level directors will reassess the necessity to preserve him there.
Murdaugh was convicted within the killing of his spouse, Maggie, and 22-year-old son Paul at a headline-making trial earlier this 12 months. He was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in jail for every of the murders. He maintained he was harmless all through the trial.