Shackled and subdued, Steven Coy pleaded guilty Wednesday to 14 felony counts, including kidnapping and sexual assault stemming from a standoff at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis near Buckeye earlier this year.

Seven burly deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office tactical team stood guard in the courtroom while a female corrections officer, whom Coy raped and held hostage, nervously watched the proceedings.

Coy, 40, faces seven mandatory life sentences and as many as 255 years to be added to seven life sentences he already has received for prior convictions.

But the Maricopa County Attorney's Office was displeased with the likelihood Coy would be sent to a prison in Maine, where his family lives.

The transfer is a condition he bartered to end the prison crisis.

"We certainly do intend to interstate Mr. Coy (to Maine)," said Dora Schriro, director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, citing as a reason that he and fellow inmate Ricky Wassenaar have "extraordinary information about security operations and security equipment."

Jeannette Gallagher, the deputy county attorney prosecuting the case, may have revealed her thoughts concerning the transfer to Maine when she referred to the Department of Corrections, which brokered the agreement, as "the department of negotiations."

She referred to her misstatement as a "Freudian slip."

County Attorney Rick Romley said he is frustrated by the case.

"He has raped two people," Romley said. "The hostage situation lasted 15 days and cost the state millions of dollars, and (Coy is) not going to serve an extra day than he was already sentenced to serve. And he's going to get what he wanted, to be sent to where he wanted to be sent."

Schriro said Coy will be "going to a maximum-security cell in a maximum-security prison. My staff has calculated that he could be sentenced to an additional 456 years. That's not winning."

The County Attorney's Office has no say in where a prisoner serves his time. "They can't pick which prison he goes to," said Cam Hunter, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections.

The prison drama began Jan. 18, when Coy and Wassenaar, 40, overpowered two corrections officers in the kitchen at Lewis prison, according to officials.

Coy stopped to rape a female kitchen worker before tussling with more officers and holing up in the tower with Wassenaar.

Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges last month, but Coy decided to change his plea to guilty on all counts. He will be sentenced April 30 by Judge Warren Granville of Maricopa County Superior Court and will face seven mandatory life sentences for the rape and kidnapping charges and as many as 255 years for other counts, including, sexual abuse, dangerous assault, possession of contraband and escape. He is already serving the first of seven life sentences for convictions that include sexual assault, armed robbery and aggravated assault from a Tucson crime spree in 1993.

Coy pleaded guilty to kidnapping male corrections officer Jason Auch, though, as Gallagher pointed out, the investigation alleges that Wassenaar and not Coy overpowered Auch.