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"You don't know who might take a pot shot at Mr. Simpson," said Suzanne Pardee, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections, who stressed the separation is routine procedure for all new inmates.
Simpson, 61, sentenced Friday to at least nine years for armed robbery and kidnapping, is currently at the medium-security High Desert State Prison, 40 minutes north of Las Vegas.
The ex-football star is undergoing three weeks of medical and psychological testing to determine which of the seven Nevada prisons he'll be permanently placed.
For now, Simpson gets a desolate view of a parched landscape through a tiny slit of a window, and is allowed only one hour of recreation per day in an outdoor yard. He gets two hot meals a day, and one in a sack, Pardee said.
Simpson's only connection to the outside world is through his attorney; no one else outside the facility is permitted to have contact with him during the intake process.
• Additional reporting by MARK GRAY
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