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Phil Spector Moving to a New Prison

Famed music producer/convicted killer Phil Spector is moving into a new prison this week, but not because he wants to. According to the Associated Press, a California Department of Corrections spokeswoman said Spector is being transferred to the Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, Calif. to make room for other inmates at his old prison, already at double its capacity.

Last month Spector, currently serving 19 years to life for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, reportedly wrote a letter to a pal saying he was trying to get to "a better prison." Since June the 69-year-old has lived in the "sensitive needs yard" of the maximum-security California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran. Despite being admitted to a sector that avoids exposure to gangs due to his notoriety, Spector still complained of the "gangsters and Manson types" at the 6,000-plus capacity penitentiary. After prison officials caught wind of the letter, Spector was interviewed and retracted the fear for his safety implied in the letter. However, Spector is still moving.

"It's not about Spector. It's about getting services to other inmates," the spokeswoman told the AP. Although the Pleasant Valley State Prison is a security level down from the Corcoran facility, Spector is apparently trying to appeal the move.

"They are sending Phil there to die," Spector's wife and former Playboy model, Rachelle, told the New York Post in a Page Six bit that ran yesterday. Spector's new home behind bars is apparently notorious for a deadly fungus called valley fever, which resides as a mold in the soil and then break off into airborne spores. "He is scared to death. When I saw him on Saturday, he was shaking ... He's 70 years old and 130 pounds ... We are trying to appeal over this, but he's been told he has no time. He's already been given his bus pass out of Corcoran."

Moral of the story: Don't shoot people.

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Carl Bellinger

Hair dye does more killing
than Phil Specter ever did!

September 14 2009 at 2:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

Gangsters and Manson types?? Right where he belongs. He's a convicted murderer. Should have thought about that before he shot her. Stupid genious. How's THAT for an oxy-moron.

September 03 2009 at 3:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Donya Bochco

To paraphrase a statement from Phil Spector about Lana Clarkson during his trial.." (Phil Spector) is a piece of shit!" Rachel Spector is also. Funny how she has the Page 6 NY Post platform and AP's Linda Deutsch, the only 2 outlets that write about them. Hmmmm Yes Rachel, Phil is going to Pleasant Valley Prison to die. Hopefully not too soon. I hope he can last at least 6 years before dieing because that is how long his 6 million in legal fees and bail kept him free from the time he murdered Lana. And Rachel, 6 years before you get the whole estate. Can you hold out Rachelgirl?

September 03 2009 at 2:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin Diamond Daniel

Phil: ease your mine, I will taking care of your wife so that's one less thing you have to worry about

September 03 2009 at 1:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jay

His young wife still defending him but inheriting his entire estate without his kids. She must be laughing, lucky byatch!

September 03 2009 at 1:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
karena

He is a moldy fungus. He will feel right at home there.

September 03 2009 at 1:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

Shucks! All he did was stick a gun in the mouth of an innocent unarmed woman and blow her head off. Come on now. And now he has to go where there may be nasty mold? Have we no sense of respect for our elders???????

What an asshole.

September 02 2009 at 11:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bobby cormier

PHIL SPECTOR should be let out of prison just for creating the wall of sound and writing "spanish harlem". he should be let out of prison for producing "be my baby" and "you've lost that lovin' feeling" and "river deep, mountain high". anybody that wrote much of and produced the Phil Spector Christmas Album should not be in jail. he got that perfect sound for john lennon's "instant karma" and for george harrison's "all things must pass" and "the concert for bangladesh". for chissakes people, he shouldn't be in jail, he should be given an award! we ALL should THANK him. -bobby cormier

September 02 2009 at 10:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cyruspishdad

Man, I was so afraid he was going to be aquitted!!! It's amazing that our system actually works sometimes!! God, it was so obvious the prick killed that girl!!! God, so disgusting!!! What an asshole!! I saw a lot of the trial crap and just can't believe close the defense got to exonerating the bastard!! It's horrible!!! I mean if your lawyer's good enough you can murder a judge, in plain sight, in a courtroom, in cold blood, with people all around, and still get off scott free!! What a fucked up system we have!! God!!! We have such a damn screwed up system!! I mean you can have a guy with a rap sheet as high as the Washington Monument, on trial and a court will randomly disallow that as a character reference of the criminal on trial!!! Then the recently released criminal will 'coincidentally' be at the place where a rape or shooting occurs (which totally fits his m.o.) and he can have his DNA all over the evidence, and our system is set up to better protect this ass-hole criminal than it's set up serve justice to the victim!! We have a really f*#@ked up system!!! The more money you got the easier it is to create a B.S. sceanario to get you off!

September 02 2009 at 9:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jay

So true.. even family courts where the spouse who has the most dollars to hire the best lawyer, for the longest time always wins even if their taxes show they earn a meazly 25k a year only. Those with money can create so many unnecessary motions in a litigation process or trial that it can take years to avoid the real consequences as long as they have money to give to a lawyer to create the BS motions and counter motions and tie up peoples time for years waiting for court dates for BS motions and counter motions the one one with money brought into the sick pot of stew stirring on high.Money Talks and Bull Shit Walks.Sick society we live in.

September 03 2009 at 12:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
whispererk

He made great records, but he is an egotistic psychopath who deserves to be whre he is. He believed his own hype and look where it got him. Genius...maybe...asshole...definitely.

September 02 2009 at 9:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply