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| Yates Enters Texas Prison System |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/25/2002 |
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Convicted murderer Andrea Yates was transferred Thursday to the Texas prison system to begin serving a life sentence for drowning her young children. Harris County sheriff's deputies delivered Yates to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice before 6 a.m. She was photographed, fingerprinted and issued a white uniform at an intake center for new women prisoners. She also received her inmate number: 1087566. A prison van then transferred Yates to Skyview Unit, a psychiatric prison in Rusk about 140 miles north of Houston. 'Yates was solemn and cooperative and showed no emotion,' prison spokesman Larry Todd said. 'She had little to say.' Yates, 37, was placed in 'crisis management,' an inpatient cell for evaluation by medical and prison officials. She will remain there at least 30 days, Todd said, before being assigned to Skyview or another prison in the state system. Yates, who drowned her five children in a bathtub last June, was convicted March 12 on two counts of capital murder. Although prosecutors acknowledged Yates was mentally ill, the jury decided she knew her actions were wrong. She was sentenced to life in prison and becomes eligible for parole in 2041. The Texas prison system has about 10,000 female inmates; Yates is one of 70 serving terms for killing one or more of their children. |
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