SEATTLE (AP) — The youthful thief who led a two-year crime spree in stolen boats, cars and planes is out of solitary confinement.
The Washington Department of Corrections confirmed Thursday that Colton Harris-Moore was transferred from Walla Walla State Penitentiary to the medium security Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen.
Spokesman Chad Lewis says the 21-year-old was in intensive management at Walla Walla with inmates facing the death penalty for his own protection as a high-profile prisoner.
His lawyer, John Henry Browne, says Harris-Moore neither needed nor wanted such protection as he serves a prison sentence of about seven years.
