Does Derek Chauvin have any perks in his cell?

[Peregrine Took]

Phone or computer to be in touch with his lawyer? TV? Books? Notebooks for writing?

Just wondering how you spend your time in solitary with nothing but 4 walls around you hour after hour, day after day.

Really, what do you do?

[Blue Owl]

1. I hope another inmate gives him some knee while the guard looks the other way

[former9thward]

8. Are you promoting prison violence?

I though we were beyond that?

[Blue Owl]

12. Just the same kind of knee restraint that Chauvin thought was perfectly OK

to kill George Floyd

[former9thward]

15. Then it is promoting murder.

That is what he was convicted of.

[Fullduplexxx]

13. I'm not

[Xavier Breath]

2. Reflect on your life and what a horrible, criminal person you've been?

Nah, prolly not.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Instead of distracting himself, he needs to do some intense self-examination.

However, like many criminals, he is probably just feeling sorry for himself.

[BGBD]

4. no phone or computer

anything that allows for communication outside of the prison is contraband. Finding someone with a phone is a huge deal in a prison, for instance.

He could have a TV, although they are generally limited to what is available in commissary so it depends what he can afford and what is available there. At best it's probably a 13 inch dorm TV. He'll have access to books that he can either buy or get from the prison library. Writing implements are probable unless there's some security concern with him having them

Solitary is usually a punishment so inmates wouldn't have most of these perks, but since he's not there as punishment but rather protective he may have more than other solitary inmates do.

[mucifer]

7. I volunteer for a group that sends books to women prisoners. There are various groups like us

across the country.

[BGBD]

17. Yeah

should have added that as well. He'd potentially have access to something like that as well.


Also, no two prisons are just alike. Some might have a great library and some have something that resembles an airport book rack. Some might have DVDs that an inmate could rent to play in a common area or in their own cell if they had a TV/DVD player. Outdoor facilities could include things like a basketball court, weights, a track, and other things. Although, the solitary facilities that I've been around had their own facilities for outdoor time.....which were a cage big enough to walk around in attached to an outer wall of the solitary wing. Kind of similar to the way most "free range" chickens were to wonder around a little pen.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Likely books, notebooks, writing implements -

assuming someone added money to his commisary account so he can buy them - or someone sends them (mechanisms vary - sometimes gifts can be sent, other times the inmate has to order from a limited/approved catalog).

It's possible he has yard time.

[FakeNoose]

6. I think they get e-books and maybe newspapers

Not sure if the new guy gets the same privileges.

[msongs]

9. police must have a retirement magazine of some sort nt

[Hoyt]

10. I'd show the 9+ minutes over and over for decades.

[Laffy Kat]

11. I don't know and I don't care.

I didn't know he was in solitary. I thought they had him in a special area that was safer for his type. I suspect he won't last long anywhere they put him.

[marble falls]

14. I really doubt he is having or will have a wonderful time while he's inside. I wish him nothing ...

... more or less than what the law calls for. Ironically the same thing I would have wished on George Floyd: nothing more or less than what the law calls for. Certainly not murdered by a cop making a point while knowing he was going to get away with it.

A teenager with a cell phone is the only reason he didn't get away with it.

[Rustyeye77]

16. On one hand you feel a micro drop of sympathy but...

for what he did he pays a price.

Does he get a radio?
He gets one hour a day of “exercise”
Does he talk to anyone?
I think I read he has 2 daughters...I think.

I’ve read that people in solitary try to schedule their day for their own sanity.
Sit ups/push ups/run in place in the cell in the morning
Read and write in the afternoon

[CoopersDad]

18. The air he breaths and an unrestricted airway to use to breathe it.

More than he gave George Floyd and quite possibly more than he deserves.