Amanda Knox returned to her cell in Capanne prison on Friday night with one crumb of comfort: the jury that handed her a 26-year sentence for fatally stabbing Meredith Kercher rejected a request by prosecutors that she serve the first nine months of her sentence in isolation during daylight hours.The American student will, therefore, keep the company of her three current cellmates, a Kosovan, a Chinese and a Roma woman, who reportedly greeted her after the guilty verdict with a cup of hot milk. "They have facilities to cook together in the cell and watch TV, with about four to five hours spent outside the cell every day," said Knox's lawyer, Luciano Ghirga.... "There are also the German and Chinese lessons, the gym and two hours outdoors a day," said Ghirga. "In her cell she is writing continuously and is allowed to keep up to eight books at any given time."
As for Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede?
Sollecito has been locked up at Capanne alongside Knox during the trial, but may now be transferred back to Terni prison, which holds more violent offenders and has a reputation for keeping a stricter eye on inmates.As he tries to continue his studies for a virtual reality degree, a return to Terni would mean heading back to a one-man cell in a section for sex offenders.
Life with the same category of inmate has not proved peaceful over at Viterbo jail for Rudy Guede, the Ivory Coast-born man who was convicted last year for participating in the murder of Kercher. While playing football during exercise hours, Guede was cornered by an Albanian and a Romanian prisoner who kicked and punched him to the ground.
