WPRO News and the Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) – Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been moved to a new prison.
A state prisons official says Hernandez, convicted last week of killing Odin Lloyd, was moved Wednesday to the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley.
Hernandez had been at Cedar Junction prison in Walpole since his conviction on April 15.
Souza-Baranowski is the state Department of Correction’s newest and most up-do-date prison having opened in 1998. It is about 40 miles west of Boston.
It houses more than 1,000 inmates and is named for two department employees killed during a failed escape attempt in 1972.
Department of Correction communications director Chris Fallon says while he cannot comment on specific inmates, those convicted of first-degree murder tend to be housed at Souza-Baranowski for extended periods.
