Aaron Hernandez should have little trouble acclimating to prison life, according to the sheriff who held the former New England Patriots tight end in custody after the murder of Odin Lloyd. Bristol County sheriff Thomas Hodgson told ESPN that Hernandez was a master manipulator in lockup, often trying to fleece extra sandwiches.
Aaron Hernandez thinks jail is training camp
The sheriff who used to oversee Hernandez in jail described the former tight end as charming and a master manipulator.
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“He would make every effort to get extra sandwiches,” Hodgson said. “He would just try to convince the officers to give him more than what they otherwise could get.”
Hodgson described Hernandez as charming. Bristol County staff were tasked with taking Hernandez to prison after he was handed a guilty verdict last week for first-degree murder, which carries a life sentence without parole in the state of Massachusetts. At Bristol, Hernandez reportedly threatened to kill a security guard and his family, and got in a fight with another inmate.
According to Hodgson, Hernandez was cavalier about his circumstances as he went off to prison, via ESPN:
There, he told them, “I’ll miss you guys, but they got it wrong,” Hodgson said. “He didn’t really have much of a change in his demeanor. He pretty much still had a swagger in his step.”
For Hernandez, the experience of prison may not be too dissimilar to what he experienced with the Pats.
“He doesn’t really look at it as jail,” Hodgson said. “It’s more like training camp.”
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