Here’s a look inside what Moussaoui’s life is going to be like for, well, the rest of his life:
He then will be placed in a 7-by-12-foot cell where he will be confined for 23 hours a day. Inside the cell is a concrete bed, stool and desk as well as a toilet and a shower. A small slatted window allows some natural light.
For one hour each day, he will have a “recreation†period but still will be in chains and isolated.
“These guys will never be out of their cells, much less in the yard or anywhere around here,” Russ Martin, the project manager for the Florence prison, told an interviewer.
Each cell is monitored by video surveillance and considered to provide a very isolated existence for anyone sentenced there. One convicted gang leader told a judge after being sentenced there: “You are sentencing me to die a little each day.â€
[…] James Aiken, a former U.S. federal prison official and now a consultant, said during the Moussaoui trial that the convicted terrorist would “rot” at the Florence facility.
“They are in a security envelope, a security bubble. Their environment is sterile, they are isolated from the outside world and from the prison world,” said Aiken, who gave evidence for the defense’s case against the death penalty for the defendant.
“If a prisoner has a heart-attack, security protocol has to be followed before that lock may be opened and medical personnel can come in,” Aiken explained.
“He doesn’t know yet, but under such conditions,” Aiken warned, “as time goes by they rot.”
I really don’t think that he’s the one who won, after all.
Martin and Aiken are right. Moussaoui is evil, but he’s also a big loser, and he will watch himself rot year after year after year.
Lots of time to think about Mighty Mo.
This is all provided he does not get sent back to France.
Times like this I wish I subscribed to a religious view that included the concept of hell, because thinking about him in it would be a pleasant thought.
Maybe the hardcore libs are a tougher bunch than I thought (though there is some political misdirection):
Capital punishment (or should I say euthanasia…) may be more merciful.
Then again, he now has hope of being traded if some soldiers or politicians are captured by Al Qaida.
On the other hand, that may take a while to occur…
I’ve read that some of those French prisons are worse than this sounds. If the French could actually be trusted to keep him locked up he might actually have a worse experience in one of their prisons.
On the other hand if rats, insects, and rotten food could be brought in he could have all the benefits of a French incarceration and still have the pride of being subjugated by the Great Satan.