Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison to a federal facility in Arizona where he may be held under less-restrictive conditions.
Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officerChauvin was taken Wednesday from a maximum-security prison in a Minneapolis suburb, where he often spent most of his day in a 10-foot-by-10-foot cell, to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Randilee Giamusso declined to detail the circumstances of Chauvin’s confinement, citing privacy, safety and security concerns. The federal prison system does house many high-profile people, but it, too, is plagued by gangs and chronic violence. The entire federal prison system was put on a nationwide lockdown in January after two prisoners were killed and two others injured during a gang altercation at a penitentiary in Texas.in its ranks.
Floyd’s death May 25, 2020, touched off a firestorm of protests around the world and refocused attention on police brutality and racism.
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