Phil Spector Being Moved To 'Sensitive Needs' Part Of New Prison

LOS ANGELES — Music legend and convicted murderer Phil Spector, who complained recently about his prison quarters but later said he wanted to stay put, is being moved to make room for inmates requiring outpatient mental health treatment, a corrections spokeswoman said Tuesday.

"It's not about Spector. It's about getting services to other inmates," said California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton.

Spector and other prisoners will be going to Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, where the other most notorious prisoner is Erik Menendez, convicted with his brother Lyle of murdering their millionaire parents in 1993. Spector's transfer will occur this week.

Spector, 69, has been at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran.

Thornton said Spector will be in a "sensitive needs yard" comparable to the one where he has been in Corcoran due to his notoriety.

Spector had complained about being in a prison that houses "gangsters and Manson types" and said he was trying to get to a better prison.

But when authorities questioned him about his complaints, they said he had decided he wanted to stay at the institution.

Spector, a music producer, is serving 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

Comments

[escribacat]

I never thought I'd wish Phil would put one of his wigs back on.

[Pasquinade]

Scary looking dude.

[rhubardpi]

Does this article tell us anything?

[nik101]

He's a murderer. He's exactly where he should be.

[jhb90277]

Anyone else think he looks like Gollum?

[eShirl]

On a good day.

[dianemv]

Definitely a Gollum look-alike. He could be cast in the next movie maybe ...:-)

[Rockwell]

Please stop posting pictures of Spector. He looks like the villian from a Dickens novel and it's giving me bad dreams.

[puddinpop]

Is there much difference between him and Manson-types? One murderer is the same as the next, in my book.

[DrFelch]

Nah, Spector is actually worse than Manson. Manson never actually killed anybody. He ordered "your children", as he called them, to do it for him. His words...... "You better thank god I had your children do it for me, or else it would have been ten times worse"

[EvasDaddy]

Spector should be put in a cell with full length mirrors on every wall. With a face like his, their could be no greater punishment.

[Zengeist]

OJ and Phil Specter are in jail. Every now and then, we get it right.

[truthartbeauty]

maybe he should have thought about that before he became a gun freak and waved guns around at everyone. He is where he belongs. He murdered an innocent young woman.

[SharonaMonk]

I like how the prison name is Pleasant Valley. Hahahaha... Maybe the gangsters and Manson types will be more.. pleasant there? There's a bright side afterall Philly boy!

[LyneRae]

Is'nt "Pleasant Valley" where Cinderella lived in the Disney movie? Or was it Jack and the Beanstalk?

[jhNY]

Nope. It's where the Monkees spent the last day of their weekends.

[43P04T34]

Send him to North Korea.

[misscheryl-lynn]

I can't believe they would even consider putting him in as sensitive needs. He wasn't to sensitive when commited murder...god that is one ugly looking person!

[jalowe1957]

Sorry, Phil. This is incarceration. Don't expect a Club Fed vacation.

All I can say is you got what you deserved in the end.

[janie@atthelake]

"sensitive needs"?????