Tsarnaev Steel Door: Details Of Prison Cell, Facility Holding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Bombing Suspect

Tsarnaev Steel Door: Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is interred in a small cell with a steel door at a federal detention center. The facility is about 40 miles outside of Boston. John Collauti, spokesman for the Federal Medical Center Devens, described the steel door Tsarnaev is being held behind and other conditions of the facility.

Tsrnaev was moved to the Ayer facility from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a hospital in Boston, on Friday. He was in the hospital due to injuries sustained during a police chase. Tsarnaev was injured during a police chase Thursday in which his brother, also a suspect in the Boston bombing, was killed.

Tsarnaev is in a cell with a solid steel door. The door has an observation window and a slot for passing food and medication. According to Collauti, who was reluctant to give specific details, Tsarnaev is being carefully monitored. In this facility, usually medical workers making rounds each shift monitor the inmates and, in addition, guards watch some cells with video cameras.

"Really this type of facility is fully capable of handling him and it's not that much of an inconvenience because it's more or less business as usual," Collauti said.

He added that inmates in the more restrictive section do not have access to TVs or radios. They are allowed to read books and other materials.

On April 22, there was a hearing in Tsarnaev's hospital room. He was unable to speak but heard charges against him: one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in the U.S. and one count of malicious destruction of property with an explosive device.

A source at the hearing said that Tsarnaev showed no reaction when told he faces the death penalty.

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