Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transferred to a Colorado supermax prison, according to federal prison records. He is now detained in the highest-security prison in the U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, Colo., after being sentenced to death in June.
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He was moved Friday to the administrative security prison at Florence, known as Supermax.
Seventy-four people have been sentenced to death since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, but only three have been executed. It’s in the same complex as the penitentiary and houses some of the country’s most notorious criminals, including September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uh-REE’-uhs moo-SOW’-ee) and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN’-skee).
Inmates are held in lockdown for 23 hours a day in 7-by-12-foot concrete cells, where they receive all their meals on trays slid through holes in steel doors.
He acknowledged that he had carried out the bombing with his older brother and apologized to his victims.
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Last month, there was speculation that Tsarnaev could stand trial on state charges for the murder of a police officer despite being on death row at a federal prison.
