This sounds like an excellent place for Moussaoui to live out his days:
Moussaoui was expected to be sent as early as Thursday to the super maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."
If so, he will spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, in a 7-by-12 foot (3.5-by-2 meter) soundproofed cell. The remaining hour he will have the chance to exercise, also alone, in a concrete chamber.Whenever he does leave his cell, Moussaoui will be in leg-irons and with his hands cuffed behind his back.
Furniture in the cells, according to those who have seen them, is made almost entirely of poured concrete. It includes a concrete stool, desk and bed covered by a thin mattress. There is a toilet and a shower in the room which runs on a timer to prevent prisoners causing floods.
A small black-and-white TV in each cell shows closed-circuit classes in subjects like anger management and literacy and religious services of numerous denominations, which are broadcast from a small chapel within the prison.
In addition to this, he won't be allowed any playtime with the other children.
I know many people are upset he wasn't given the death penalty, but I'll just be pleased he's denied martyrdom.
Since I can't change his sentence to death, I'll take what I can get. If you want to scream and shout about the sentence, go ahead. It won't change a fricking thing.
Posted by floridacracker at May 4, 2006 02:57 PMActually, I'd take death over living another 50 or so years in his shoes. He'll know the definition of hell on earth in a couple of decades.
Posted by: mike at May 4, 2006 11:53 PMI also think it would be hellish.
He's going to be alone 23 hours a day, not snorting coke and having sex like Richard Speck.
Posted by: Donnah at May 5, 2006 07:17 AMDoes that mean they are going to allow him to pray 5 times a day with an imam pumped in on the tv? How will his life be any different from what it would be in a stone madrassa in Pakistan (except for the lack of other students)?
Posted by: Axolotl at May 5, 2006 02:29 PMHopefully he'll find it very painful to be alone for the rest of his life.
Posted by: Donnah at May 7, 2006 04:35 AMWell, he's asking for a "do-over" now, trial-wise, but the judge told him he's stuck with the "bend-over".
Posted by: tree hugging sister at May 9, 2006 11:32 PMI understand he's gotten some fans. He'll be the next Tookie.
Posted by: Donnah at May 10, 2006 09:38 PM