Moussaoui Begins the Rest of His Miserable Life

Zacarias Moussaoui arrived at his new home in Colorado where he will spend the rest of his days in near solitary confinement (23 hours in his cell, with 1 hour of supervised exercise outside his cell but with no contact with other prisoners).

Marshals brought Moussaoui, prisoner 51427-054, before dawn Saturday to the Supermax federal prison in southern Colorado, where he will spend 23 hours a day in his cell and have little to no contact with other notorious criminals.

"He has now begun serving his sentence of life without the possibility of release," the U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement.

A special team of deputy marshals took Moussaoui from a detention center in Alexandria, Va., late Friday night, put him on a small jet operated by the agency and delivered him to the prison in Florence, Colo., about 90 miles southwest of Denver.

Moussaoui was the only prisoner aboard, said Ken Deal, chief deputy U.S. marshal in Denver. Deal said he did not know if the 37-year-old Frenchman made any statements during the transfer.

"He is secure in the administrative max (prison) in Florence, Colorado," Deal said. "All the inmates transferred there are handled with the highest level of security."

His fate is far more humane than that of the potential and actual victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.