After being arrested in Chile on 3rd of June 2010, the Dutch poker player didn’t take too long to confess to the murder of the 21-year-old Stephany Flores. With the confession now behind him, Van der Sloot who knows he is likely to receive extensive prison time and is apprehensive about remaining in the Peruvian jail, named Miguel Castro.
According to a 2009 U.S Department of State Human Rights Report conducted on this prison they found the following:
- This maximum security prison as of last year had 44,800 inmates (2,794 women) locked up in Peru
- Its conditions are described as ‘harsh’
- The prison is considered to be overcrowded and have very poor sanitation.
- Epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS and also tuberculosis
The Dutchman, who is terrified of what will happen to him serving his sentence in the Peruvian jail, is now trying to work out a deal with authorities. In the proposition, Van der Sloot has suggested to reveal the body location of Natalee Holloway (who he was also suspected of murdering after her disappearance in 2005) if he can serve the remainder of his sentence in an Aruban jail.
Van der Sloot is currently in isolation from other prisoners for security reasons, and is still awaiting trial in Miguel Castro jail in Lima.
