'The million-dollar bomber': Fury as Boston Marathon bomber's prison canteen ... trends now
A former warden at the prison where the Boston Marathon bomber is living has slammed the killer for saving more than $24,000 in jail - including donations from sick strangers.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 30, has been on death row at Colorado's ADMAX Florence - known as the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' - since his 2015 conviction for inciting the horrific mass casualty event on April 15, 2013.
He has $4,000 in his prison canteen account, which can be used to purchase various items like food and clothing from the jailhouse shop, and a $26,000 fund comprising donations from his sisters, lawyers, and strangers.
Former Supermax warden Bob Hood has slammed Tsarnaev's failure to pay the $101 million he owes victims while making considerable savings of his own as 'offensive'.
'He came in indigent, and he should remain an indigent,' Hood told the Boston Herald. 'It's sick that he has any kind of following... Why would he even get a penny?'
A former warden at the prison where Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pictured) is living has slammed the killer for saving more than $24,000 in jail while failing to pay any of his victims
Tsarnaev has been on death row at Colorado 's ADMAX Florence (pictured from above) - known as the 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' - after he was convicted for inciting the horrific mass casualty event on April 15, 2013
Three people were killed - Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23 - and more than 260 runners were injured, including 17 people who lost limbs in the horrific attack
Hood added that the cost to taxpayers of keeping Tsarnaev in prison has also easily eclipsed $1 million - excluding his undisclosed legal tab to date.
'He's the million-dollar bomber,' Hood told the Herald.
Meanwhile, Tsarnaev's lawyer is moving to stop the Boston feds from seizing his client's $4,223.86 canteen account.
'He is neither hoarding funds nor spending profligately,' attorney David Patton wrote in legal documents attached to the appeal.
The attorney added that his killer client 'continues to receive unsolicited deposits from people whom he has never met' but that he 'has not had access' to the money.
Patton said Tsarnaev earns $25 per month working as a cleaner in the prison, and that he uses his canteen account to buy 'commissary items such as allergy medication, sweat clothes needed to do outdoor orderly work, food, and stamps'.
He pays just $35
