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Jun 26, 2008 1:29 pm US/Eastern

Entwistle To Share Prison Walls With 'Mucko'

Shirley Prison Also Scene Of Infamous Geoghan Murder

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SHIRLEY (WBZ) ― Convicted killer Neil Entwistle will begin serving his life prison term at the Souza-Baranowski maximum security prison in Shirley.

The 1152 bed prison was the scene of the infamous prison murder of pedophile priest John Geoghan. Entwistle will also be sharing prison walls with the likes of Michael "Mucko" McDermott, the man who shot and killed seven people at Wakefield's Edgewater Technology in 2000.

Neil Entwistle was sentenced Thursday to the mandatory term of life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his wife and baby daughter in their Hopkinton home in 2006. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Diane Kottmyer said Entwistle would serve his time at MCI Cedar Junction, though the Department of Corrections tells WBZ his time will be served in Shirley.

According to the Department of Corrections, Entwistle will be transferred to Shirley after spending one night at the Middlesex County jail in Cambridge, where he will be processed. He will remain in maximum security custody for a minimum of two years, at which time he may be transferred to a lower security facility.

If classified among the general prison population, Entwistle will be allowed three visits per week.

Souza-Baranowski is a 500,000 square foot prison with 1024 general population cells and 128 "special management" cells. As of June 16, there were 1018 inmates. It is named after two corrections staff members killed in an attempted prison break in 1972.

The facility is the newest Massachusetts prison, having opened in 1998. It is monitored by a network of 366 cameras, all rolling 24 hours a day.

It was one of those cameras that caught the response to the August 2003 killing of convicted pedophile priest John Geoghan. He was bound, beaten and strangled in his cell by fellow inmate Joseph Druce. When corrections officers responded to the cell, they found it jammed shut. Their struggle to open the cell was captured on an infamous surveillance video.

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