Brock Turner, the Stanford University student convicted of sexual assault, was placed in protective custody while serving out his six-month sentence at the Santa Clara County Jail.
TMZ reported that it is “to keep him safe from inmates who might harm him.”
A representative with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office spoke with the website, which reported that he’s being held in an area “away from the general inmate population, and will have a deputy escort whenever he moves around the grounds.”
