(Jamaica Gleaner) Former west Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has finally been moved from solitary confinement in a United States (US) prison. After spending more than two years in solitary confinement in New York, Coke has been moved to another prison, where he is now a part of the general population.
Coke, who has been sentenced to 23 years on drug and gun racketeering charges in the US, has been transferred from the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Manhattan, New York, to the Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield, in South Carolina.
A family member, Taneisha Kerr, told The Sunday Gleaner that Coke was moved a little over two weeks ago to the prison, which has a population of 1,700.
She said Coke called his grandmother – Joyce Madden – on the one-year anniversary of his mother Pauline Haliburton’s death on August 22 and mourned.
“He said he felt it and he cried that he wasn’t there to see her for the last or nothing,” said Kerr.
