Phil Spector being moved to different prison

[Bailey]

Phil Spector (California Dept. of Corrections / June 10, 2009)

LOS ANGELES -- Legendary music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector, who complained recently about his prison quarters, is being moved to a new facility.

KTLA News

7:56 PM PDT, September 1, 2009

Spector, 69, along with a group of other prisoners, is being moved to Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga to make room for inmates that require outpatient mental heath treatment, according to the California Department of Corrections.

Pleasant Valley State Prison is where Erik Menendez, convicted with his brother Lyle of murdering their millionaire parents in 1993, is housed.

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

Spector has been housed at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison at Corcoran for the past several months. He will be moved to a "sensitive needs yard" similar to the one in which he has been residing in at Corcoran because of his notoriety.

The former music producer wrote in a letter in late August that he feared for his safety at Corcoran State Prison and wanted to be moved to "a better prison" -- far away from cult leader Charles Manson and RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan.

Spector wrote the letter to his friend Steve Escobar, a musician and journalist.

In it, he said he is working with his attorneys "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!"

Spector will be moved to the new prison this week, according to officials.

He is currently serving a sentence of 15 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

Clarkson, 40, was found shot through the mouth at Spector's Alhambra mansion in February, 2003.

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[Zen900]

Manson has never himself killed anyone with his own hands like Spector did. Sirhan and Spector both killed one each and both are insane. Spector is with exactly the type of low life scumbags he should be with becuse he shot Lana in the head for absolutely no reason at all. And then he lied about it and claimed Lana committed suicide. Now that is even lower than a scumbag!