Another former Minneapolis officer, Thomas Lane, who held down Floyd’s legs as he struggled to breathe, was released from federal prison in Colorado on Tuesday.

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Chauvin, 47, is now housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, a low-security prison. He was previously held in Arizona at FCI Tucson in August 2022 to simultaneously serve a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22 1/2-year state sentence for second-degree murder.

The transfer comes nearly nine months after Chauvin was stabbed 22 times in prison by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant.

  • @SendMePhotos
    30•4 months ago

    That’s anger talking. It doesn’t make sense for compliant, low risk inmates to be in maximum security prisons.

    • @VelvetStorm
      5•4 months ago

      Ya, I am angry, but no, that’s not why. If he isn’t in almost 24-hour isolation, he’s gonna get stabbed or beat or raped or killed. The best place to provide for that is a supermax. And I don’t care if this makes me a bad person, but this asshole deserves to suffer for the rest of his life.

      • @SendMePhotos
        -3•4 months ago

        That makes you no better, which does not help.

        • @VelvetStorm
          2•4 months ago

          Yes because that opinion somehow makes me no better than a racist murderer.

        • @SulaymanF
          1•4 months ago

          Maximum security for his own protection, not because of punishment.

    • @[email protected]
      4•4 months ago

      Nah nah nah. Guy needs super max for his own protection. In this day and age, officer safety is a real concern, even with disgraced former officers. Derek “Soft Derriere” Chauvin needs full 23 hour a day isolation interspersed with supervised private yard time. Anything less and I’m just petrified poor Derek won’t survive. Shame.