Warren Jeffs Heads to East Texas Prison

HOUSTON (AP) – Convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been moved to his new permanent home – an East Texas prison – to begin serving his life sentence for sexually assaulting one of his child brides at a West Texas compound built and occupied by members of his Mormon fundamentalist church. The 55-year-old Jeffs, convicted last month in San Angelo, was taken Tuesday from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Byrd Unit in Huntsville, where new inmates undergo physical and mental examinations, to the Powledge Unit outside Palestine. Prison agency spokesman Jason Clark says Jeffs will be in protective custody, among the most restrictive forms of imprisonment in Texas. He’ll be alone in his cell daily and be out only for recreation alone and a shower.