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| Lindh Gets Sent From Va. to Calif. Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/30/2003 |
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John Walker Lindh, the American serving a 20-year sentence for helping the Taliban, has been transferred to a federal prison in this desert community northeast of Los Angeles. Lindh, 21, arrived at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Victorville on Saturday, under guard by federal marshals, authorities said. He had been held at a federal lockup in Virginia. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison last October after pleading guilty to supplying services to the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan and carrying explosives in commission of a felony. At the prison on the former George Air Force Base he will be housed with 1,656 other inmates, said Traci Billingsley, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman. 'Typically the inmates are double bunked, with just a writing surface and lockers in their cell,' Billingsley said. 'Most inmates are required to work during the day, in food service, plumbing, groundskeeping or painting, something like that.' Lindh's attorney, James J. Brosnahan Jr. of San Francisco, declined to comment. |
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