Yes, MP has a "medium" custody classification, and Nash is a medium security facility. :behindbar
Thanks for the pix!
A murderer can be classified to be placed into a medium security prison. Before I retired, I was a Booking/Classification Lieutenant. I was over the Booking Department and was also in Classifications.
Brad Cooper murdered his wife. Had he (example) murdered a stranger, not known his victim, or even went on the prowl for a victim to violently murder, he would be classified as 'violent' (also see below example). I know this would not seem right due to the way he murdered Nancy and left her at Fielding Drive almost naked except for a rolled up sports bra, but there you are. Had he cut her throat, or even left a bloody crime scene, he would then be considered violent.
In classifying an inmate, whether or not he is a threat to other inmates is a factor. He will be housed with inmates who do not go out and randomly murder. He will not be a threat to other inmates because he cowardly murdered his wife. I doubt Brad Cooper will accost another inmate. He will be considered cowardly by other inmates because he murdered his wife, a woman. The only way a prison gang would even want to recruit BC would be on the lowest rung and only to do their fetching and carrying, IMO. Even they would consider him a coward, IMHO.
Brad Cooper will not have an easy life in prison, IMO. His days of sitting in a courtroom in a business suit drinking coffee brought to him by his defense team are over. BTW, in Louisiana, an inmate in court can drink from the water pitcher at the defense table, but would not be allowed to touch/drink anything brought in from the outside. His smirks will not be regarded well in prison and he will need to keep to himself at the beginning. After a while, BC will find his niche in prison. I predict he will become a 'prison lawyer'. The more intelligent/nerdy ones usually do. It doesn't require any legal expertise, but it does require intelligence. He will look up law and help write appeals on smaller cases where the inmate does not have a lawyer. In his own case, BC will have an appeals lawyer and it may be turned down altogether. I suspect it will be.
Anyway, this is my :twocents: worth and my last post on the subject. I have always thought BC guilty and am pleased he is where he belongs - in prison. I would think he is in PC right now because he was just sentenced to LWOP and if he has ever had suicidal thoughts, now would be the time he would be having them, IMO. All sentenced inmates are in Isolation or in a small holding cell with maybe one or two other inmates until classified.
I can only speak for the way it is in Louisiana.
I have enjoyed posting with all of you and will hopefully do so again on another case!
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