By Sadie Gurman and Kirk Mitchell
The Denver Post
MONUMENT, Colo. — A Colorado prison inmate who has been the subject of intense media interest since the shooting death of Department of Corrections Executive Director Tom Clements has been moved into an isolation cell for his own protection, officials said Thursday.
“This is because of the increased attention in the media,” said Alison Morgan, spokeswoman for the DOC. “He is not being punished. He was removed from population for his own safety.”
Clements’ shooting death at his Monument home occurred a week after he denied a request by the inmate, Homaidan al-Turki, to serve out the remainder of a Colorado prison sentence in his native Saudi Arabia. Clements had cited the offender’s refusal to undergo sex-offender treatment.
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