Bryan Kohberger was officially sentenced to four mandates for life in prison without parole this week for brutal 2022 murder Students from the Idaho University, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.
“He will resist the stomach chains and the leg irons he wears, he will be escorted in the guard of the Idaho correction department, and the door will close behind him forever,” said Latah County prosecutor Bill Thompson, about Kohberger during the conviction.
Kohberger, former student graduate of criminal justice, should serve her sentence at the maximum Idaho Security Institution, known as IMSI, CBS affiliated KBOI reports. This is the only maximum state security prison.
The IMSI is home to several notable prisoners and has been plagued by reports of violence, hunger strikes and allegations of inhuman conditions in recent years.
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One of the “15 worst prisons in America,” said the report
Located in Kuna, Idaho, about 20 miles of wood, the maximum Idaho security institution was opened in 1989. According to its websiteIMSI shelters the “most disturbing male residents” in the state and has a reinforced double -scale fence with razor wire and an electronic detection system.
The installation was named one of the “15 worst prisons in America” by Security Journal America in 2024 – joining other notorious locks such as Correctional establishment of the attica In New York, San Quentin in California and Adx Florencealias the “Alcatraz des Roches”, in Colorado.
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Lonely isolation and locking are common to IMSI, which “faced criticism for its severe treatment for inadequate prisoners and mental health care”, according to the American security review.
Affiliate of CBS KBOI reported in 2016 that many prison prisoners were locked in cell isolation for 23 hours a day, eating alone in their cells without almost any human interaction. The highest official of state correctional services said to the station at the time they worked to reduce the use of the lonely.
“The IMSI manages the long-term housing of our most dangerous and volatile population,” the Idaho’s ministry of correction in an email said on Friday. Asked about the use of solitary isolation and locking, the ministry said: “Restrictive housing is not a disciplinary sanction, this is an assignment of housing designed to manage specific behavior.”
In its description of the ISMI, the American security newspaper notes “many reports of violence of prisoners on the comrades, as well as allegations of excessive force by correctional agents”. In 2023, a fight involving more than 30 prisoners broke out in Imsi, the statesman of Idaho reportedSend a prisoner to the hospital.
Last summer, dozens of Imsi detainees refused to eat for six days on many grievances, the statesman of Idaho reportedAnd earlier this month, nearly 90 detainees planned to stage hunger to protest against the “inhuman conditions” of the prison, According to the newspaper. The Correctional Services Department described it as “a planned and peaceful demonstration” on access to visits and programming.
Chad Daybell and 2 serial killers are there
Kohberger took a advocacy agreement Earlier this month that spared him a possible death penalty. He will live alongside all eight detainees of male death from Idaho to Imsi, according to The Idaho correction department.
Among these prisoners is Thomas CreechA serial killer who was locked up for half a century. Creech, who was found guilty of five murders in three states and suspected of several others, if his planned execution was interrupted by a judge last November after his first attempt at the lethal injection was sloppy earlier in 2024.
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Another serial killer incarcerated in Ismi, Gerald PizzutoWaiting for the execution of two murders in Idaho in 1985. That same year, Pizzuto killed two other people in the state of Washington after being released from prison in Michigan for rape.
Kohberger will also be in the same establishment as the houses sentenced to Killer Chad Daybell. The husband of “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced From the first degree murder of his first wife and two of the children of his girlfriend at the time, Lori Vallow, Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, in a case that made the headlines. Chad Daybell was deathly condemned Last June, almost a year after Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life prison.
Kohberger behind bars
Police file on the quadruple murder file This was released by the Moscow police department in Idaho on Wednesday evening, highlighted Kohberger’s life behind bars from the killings.
A man who was hosted next to the Kohberger cell in Latah County prison told a detective that Kohberger was washed his hands of tens of times a day and spent an hour in the shower. He said Kohberger “would be awake almost all night and would only take a nap during the day.”
Another prisoner from the prison said he had often heard Kohberger in video calls with his mother, police records said. Once Kohberger spoke to his mother, the detainee, who looked at sport, said: “You suck” one of the team players, how much Kohberger got up and put his face in the bars and asked aggressively if [the inmate] was talking about him or his mother. [The inmate] said it was the only time Kohberger lost his cool, “said the police report.
Another detainee who met Kohberger expressed negative feelings towards him, according to the files. The man called Kohberger “crazy” and said “if he was not more and more judicial worried [re]Percussion he would have physically attacked Kohberger, “said the police document.
When he was asked for another detainee if he thought Kohberger was guilty of crimes, he said yes, adding: “His eyes tell a story.”