A former guard at the prison where the Boston Marathon bomber lives has condemned the killer for saving more than $24,000 in jail time, including donations from sick strangers.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 30, has been on death row at ADMAX Florence in Colorado – known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” – since his conviction in 2015 for inciting the horrific mass casualty event on April 15, 2013.
He has $4,000 in his prison canteen account, which can be used to purchase various items, such as food and clothing, from the prison store, and a $26,000 fund made up of donations from his sisters, lawyers and strangers.
Former Supermax executive Bob Hood has branded Tsarnaev’s inability to pay the $101 million he owes his victims while making significant savings himself as “offensive.”
“He came in need, and he should remain a needy person,” Hood told the newspaper Boston Herald. “It’s sick that he has any kind of following… Why should he even get a cent?”
A former guard at the prison where Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pictured) lives has condemned the killer for pocketing more than $24,000 in prison while failing to pay his victims.
Tsarnaev was on death row at Colorado’s ADMAX Florence (pictured from above) – known as the ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ – after being convicted of inciting the horrific mass casualty event on April 15, 2013
Three people were killed: Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23 – and more than 260 runners were injured, including 17 people who lost limbs in the horrific attack
Hood added that the cost to taxpayers of keeping Tsarnaev in jail has also easily exceeded $1 million — not including his as-yet undisclosed legal bill.
“He’s the million-dollar bomber,” Hood told the Herald.
Meanwhile, Tsarnaev’s lawyer tries to prevent the Boston FBI from seizing his client’s $4,223.86 cafeteria bill.
“He is not hoarding money, nor is he spending wastefully,” attorney David Patton wrote in legal documents accompanying the appeal.
The lawyer added that his killer client “continues to receive unsolicited deposits from people he has never met” but that he has “not had access” to the money.
Patton said Tsarnaev earns $25 a month working as a cleaner at the prison, and uses his canteen account to “purchase provisions such as allergy medication, sweat clothing needed to do outside orderly work, food and stamps.”
He pays only $35 a month in compensation to the victims, of which he owes $101 million. Patton said he has paid about $2,600 so far.
Tsarnaev also received a $1,400 Covid-19 relief payment two years ago, which was paid out to all prisoners, but it has been “placed under administrative hold” by the Prisons Board.
Pictured: Boston firefighter James Plourde carries an injured girl away from the scene after a bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon
Together with his brother Tamarlan, Tsarnaev planted two pressure cooker bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon race on April 15, 2013.
Martin Richard was just eight years old when he was killed in the bombing while cheering on runners with his family
Krystle Campbell, 29, a restaurant manager from Medford, Massachusetts, was among the people killed in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon
Lingzi Lu, 23, a Chinese graduate student from Boston, was killed in the domestic terror attack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, Massachusetts, who was shot and killed on the school campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thursday, April 18, 2013
Last month, a federal appeals court ordered the judge who presided over Tsarnaev’s 2015 trial to investigate whether two jurors were biased and should not have been seated.
Lawyers for Tsarnaev said a friend on Facebook told one juror to “get on the jury” and send him “to jail where he would be taken care of,” while the second juror retweeted a Twitter post that killer was called a ‘piece’. of waste.’
U.S. Circuit Judge William Kayatta, writing for the majority, said that if the judge concluded that either juror should have been disqualified, Tsarnaev would be entitled to a new trial in the penalty phase to re-determine whether he should be sentenced to death must become.
“And even then, we emphasize again that the only question in such proceedings will be whether Tsarnaev will be executed; Regardless of the outcome, he will spend the rest of his life in prison,” Kayatta wrote.
Together with his brother Tamarlan, Tsarnaev planted two pressure cooker bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon race on April 15, 2013.
Suspicious photos released by police of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, then 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, then 19
Three people were killed: Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23 – and more than 260 runners were injured, including 17 people who lost limbs.
Three days later, on April 18, the FBI released images of the murdering brothers, and that evening they shot MIT police officer Sean Collier, 27, as he hunted for them.
They were captured again by police in Watertown and were involved in another shootout, in which two officers were seriously injured, and one, Dennis Simmonds, 28, died a year later.
Tamerlan was shot several times during the altercation and Dzhokhar ran him over as he escaped in a stolen car. He died shortly afterwards.