*The reports last week that Tory Lanez was moved to the general population at North Kern State Prison are inaccurate.
According to The Jasmine Brand, in jailhouse audio of Lanez (whose real name is Daystar Peterson) talking about his experience, he’s heard saying: “I’m just happy to get out that b*llsh*t county jail. They was hating on a young, fly n*gga, you heard? Had me in 24-hour lockdown, half-sized cell by myself, no windows, no mirrors. [A] n*gga ain’t even seen himself in a whole year, yo!”
Last month it was reported that Lanez was fearful for his life at North Kern State Prison in Delano, Calif.
As Complex reports, legal affairs journalist Meghann Cuniff responded to reports that he was moved from isolation to general population at North Kern. According to Cuniff, Lanez was transferred to a different facility at the California Correctional Institute that has even more security.
“Just FYI because people are asking, this isn’t true,” Cuniff tweeted in response to a @DailyLoud post about Lanez being in general population. “Tory Lanez was moved to the California Correctional Institute, a state supermax prison that is not North Kern State Prison. Reports that Lanez was moved to general population at North Kern are false.”
Just FYI because people are asking, this isn’t true.
Tory Lanez was moved to the California Correctional Institute, a state supermax prison that is not North Kern State Prison.
Reports that Lanez was moved to general population at North Kern are false. https://t.co/3Mkv7quHSk
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) October 13, 2023
She also shared a screenshot of a message from the California Correctional Institute confirming Lanez is no longer being housed at North Kern.
“By law, CDCR is limited in the information it can provide. Daystar Peterson is being housed at CCI,” read the note.
Cuniff wrote in the post, “California Correctional Institute is in Tehachapi, about 85 miles southeast of Kern. It’s designated as a supermax prison, so ‘general population’ there is not quite the same as general population elsewhere.”
As we reported previously, the rapper, 31, is expected to serve his 10-year sentence at a California state prison for the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
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