Pistorius has spent his first hours behind bars with 7000
criminals who will share the same prison as him for the next 10 months, reports said.
Shortly after his sentence yesterday, the athlete was driven in a
police van to the prison in Pretoria where he spoke with a chaplain and a
psychologist.
Early today Australian time the athlete was
settling in for his first night in a single cell in the jail’s hospital
wing where he will no doubt have a fitful sleep.
The Kgosi Mampuru
II prison’s area commissioner, Zebilon Monama, last night told the
South African Press Association that when Pistorius arrived at the jail
he was tired and tense and a chaplain had spoken with him.
“He is deurmekaar (confused), as they say in Afrikaans. After he saw
the chaplain our psychologist went to see him, just to try talk to him,”
Sapa quoted Mr Monama as saying.
As expected, Pistorius was placed in a single cell in the hospital as a result of his physical disability and vulnerability.
Mr
Monama said that after his arrival at the jail yesterday Pistorius was
fingerprinted and searched, his details put into a computer and he was
given a prison number.
A nurse had been there to open a medical file.
He was given orange prison garb, which all prisoners must wear in jail.
-CULLED from News Limited
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