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 Phil Spector: Fears for safety while in prison
Convicted US music legend Phil Spector has said that he fears for his safety while in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
He has been writing letters about his life behind bars, to his friend Steve Escobar, a musician and music journalist.
In a letter released on Wednesday he mentioned about his fears for his safety and would like to be moved to "a better prison." He wrote of his distress of being in the same prison as notorious murderers including Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan.
Spector added that he has been working "to get a better prison with people more like myself in it during the appeal process instead of all these lowlife scumbags, gangsters and Manson types....They'd kill you here for a 39-cent bag of soup!"
The sixty nine-year-old music producer said that his spirits were up as his wife, Rachelle, twenty nine, has begun to visit him twice a week at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran. The prison is 400 miles (644km) from their Alhambra home.
"She's a real trouper, all in all, it's like a dream come true having her by my side again." he said.
Spector said his wife brings him packaged food so that he wouldn't need to go the dining hall with other inmates.
"I know it is a chance to get out of my cell going to the dining room but the less I see of the inmates, the better and safer I feel," he said. "Even though 24/7 lockdown in a 3' by 7' cell is very tough."
Spector's letters were released by Hal Lifson, a publicist working for Spector and his wife.
Clarkson, forty, was found shot through the mouth at Spector's Alhambra mansion in February, 2003.
Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in April, two years after the jury in his initial trial failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Spector, the difficult genius whose "Wall of Sound" production technique turned pop songs into mini-symphonies in the 1960s, was sentenced to a term of 19 years to life in May. |
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