Last year, Jodi Arias was sentenced to spend the rest of her natural life in prison with no chance of parole for the murder of her boyfriend, salesman Travis Alexander. Since Judge Sherry Stephens gave the verdict to a packed courtroom in Phoenix, Arizona last April, very little has been reported about the convicted killer, who is incarcerated at the Perryville Prison, a maximum security prison in Arizona.
Recently, rapper Kareem "Lefty" Williams spoke with Radar Online and gave an update about Arias as he told the website that he visited her "two or three times" at the prison. He revealed that she is in shackles and that she was being "treated like a death row inmate even though she isn't on death row."
"Visiting days for Jodi are Thursday from 7 to 10:30 a.m.," said Williams. He added that Arias is still in the maximum security area and that she is accompanied by two guards wherever she goes.
Williams said that visitors are subjected to a strict set of rules in order to prohibit them from bringing contraband into the prison and that he had a conversation with Arias. He also said that he talked to her through a telephone and that there was a glass partition between them, but there was more than a piece of glass that kept him separated from the former waitress.
"When we have our conversation it is like she is being held in a dog cage," he claimed. "She is in a small metal cage which is like a single room when she is talking to me."
The rapper said that Arias is allowed to have phone-only visits but she may be able to meet with people face to face in February.
Williams also revealed that Arias has gained four pounds since entering the prison and that she takes the time to work out. He also said that while she does not have a prison job, she is "well taken care of" and can get whatever she wants from the commissary.
Arias killed her boyfriend in June 2008 and claimed that she did it because he was being physically and emotionally abusive. Her 2013 trial made headlines as details of their relationship and the violent crime scene were broadcast, and in that year she was found guilty of both premeditated murder and felony murder. In May 2013, the sentencing phase of Arias's trial was declared as a mistrial, and her sentencing retrial began in October 2014. She was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on April 13, 2015.
