Inside Derek Chauvin’s new home: Maximum-security prison that has never seen an escape

Published April 21, 2021 8:20pm ET



Former Minneapolis police officer and now convicted murderer Derek Chauvin woke up Wednesday morning at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights penitentiary.

After being denied bail following his guilty verdict, Chauvin was shipped off to the prison, which sits about 25 miles away from downtown Minneapolis and where George Floyd was murdered last May.

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