BIG SPRING, Texas — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been moved to a Texas federal prison, according to a source familiar with the situation.
It's the latest move for Chauvin after he was convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd.
Chauvin was moved to the low-security federal facility in Big Spring, Texas, after recently serving time at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Before that, Chauvin was at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, where he was stabbed nearly two dozen times in November 2023.
The Associated Press reported in 2023 that the medium-security prison in Tucson had been plagued with security lapses and staffing shortages. Chauvin's stabbing was the second major incident at the Tucson facility after an inmate pulled out a gun and tried to shoot a visitor in the head in November 2022.
Chauvin now joins more than 800 total inmates at the Big Spring facility, which is also home to a minimum-security satellite camp. It's unclear if his move was related to the stabbing.