Posted on 04/28/2013 4:29:34 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a federal official said Saturday.
Federal Medical Center Devens spokesman John Collauti described the conditions under which 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being held in the Ayer facility after being moved there from a hospital Friday.
Tsarnaev was injured during a police chase in which his brother, also a suspect in the bombing, was fatally wounded.
Collauti said in a telephone interview that Tsarnaev is in secure housing where authorities can monitor him.
His cell has a solid steel door with an observation window and a slot for passing food and medication.
Collauti wouldn't discuss specific details related to Tsarnaev, but said that typically medical workers making rounds each shift monitor the inmates.
He said guards also keep an eye on some cells with video cameras.
Also, inmates in the more restrictive section do not have access to TVs or radios, but can read books and other materials, he said.
'Really this type of facility is fully capable of handling him and it's not that much of an inconvenience because it's more or less business as usual,' Collauti said.
His new home is part of the minimum security facility on the decommissioned Fort Devens U.S. Army base.
It treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
It has been referred to in the past as 'agreeable' and 'fairly pleasant'.
It is designated as an administrative facility, which means it has inmates from different security classifications, from white-collar criminals to mobsters and sex offenders.
The medical center currently houses 1,000 inmates with 124 in a minimum-security satellite prison camp. It costs around $157 for each inmate per day.
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I’m having ‘White Bean Chili’ as we speak. Bon Appetit
“Minimum security.” “Pleasant.” Well, we wouldn’t expect anything less than that for this poor child. Obama and Holder have done their best for him. And as for all those new amputees around Boston, heck, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too bad for them. The Muslim, on the other hand, must be handled with kid gloves.
Too bad they didn’t hide him away before Holder sent his goon squad in to stop the interrogation.
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