Yes, as I stated said in the post you quoted, I stand corrected. The OP's question was about moving to BK to his preferred locale. Do you have info on that?
Yes. I am very familiar with State Prisons and have a friend who works in a Federal Prison. Not in Idaho though.
You don't get arrested and prosecuted in one State then get to move back to your home State.
BK will be prosecuted in the Idaho court system and if found guilty he will be remanded to the Idaho State prison system. There will be no chance of BK being moved to a Pennsylvania prison to be closer to his family. His family will have to visit him in his Idaho prison, maximum security.
Sometimes Idaho prisoners are moved to a specific prison in Colorado and sometimes a State prison inmate will be moved out of State to a different State prison if their safety is greatly compromised.
But Idaho has the death penalty and a place for death penalty inmates to sit on death row where they are isolated under tight security so if BK gets the DP he will most likely spend his life on Idaho's death row.
It is very possible for State prison inmates to get put in a prison that is closer to their home city if their home city is in the same State they are incarcerated in. Like if you are incarcerated in Michigan and your family lives in Southern Michigan, you can request to be put in a prison in Southern MI as opposed to being shipped to Northern MI or the Upper Peninsula.
Federal prisons are found throughout the US. If BK was in the Federal Prison System he could request to be put in the closest prison to his family in Pennsylvania.
As an example:
United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood) is a high-security level federal prison located in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. It is overseen by the Northeast Regional Office.
Kohberger was arrested at his parents’ Albrightsville, Pennsylvania home last week in connection to the Nov. 13 murders which have captivated the nation.
nypost.com
Even if Idaho officials do seek the death penalty for Kohberger, it is unlikely the punishment will be carried out. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the Gem State has only executed three people since the practice resumed in 1976.
The state’s last inmate to be executed, Richard Albert Leavitt, spent 26 years on death row before dying by lethal injection in 2012.
As of 2023, there are eight inmates — including one of the country’s few women sentenced to capital punishment, Robin Row — on Idaho’s death row. If found guilty and then sentenced to death, Kohberger would likely await execution at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
Located in the South Boise Prison Complex, the intimidating campus includes a double-perimeter fence reinforced with razor wire, an electronic detection system and a 24-hour armed patrol.