Michael Devlin was moved Wednesday to a prison in the northwest Missouri town of Cameron, where he is expected to serve his 74 life sentences for kidnapping and molesting two boys whose rescue was dubbed the "Missouri Miracle."
Devlin, 42, had been under evaluation at a prison intake center in St. Joseph since October, when he pleaded guilty in three counties and in federal court for the 2002 abduction of then-11-year-old Shawn Hornbeck and the January 2007 abduction of 13-year-old Ben Ownby. Both boys, from different parts of rural eastern Missouri, were found four days after Ben's abduction at Devlin's apartment in the St. Louis County town of Kirkwood.
Devlin is housed in "administrative segregation." He's confined to his cell almost all the time, Corrections Department spokesman Brian Hauswirth said. He can have one magazine and one newspaper, some sacred readings but no hardback books. He has no TV, no radio, no computer.
Devlin eats alone, though he gets the same meal as other inmates. He gets one hour of recreation by himself three times a week, time when he can walk outdoors or have library books brought to him he isn't allowed to go there. He can shower every third day. He can receive visitors, but would have to meet with them through glass. He has no contact with other inmates.
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