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PLAINVILLE – A day after she began her jail sentence for convincing her suicidal boyfriend to commit suicide, Michelle Carter stayed in a medical unit at the Dartmouth House of Corrections, where officials say she is closely monitored .
"It's a common practice for first-time offenders," said Jonathan Darling, spokesman for Bristol County sheriff Thomas Hodgson.
Carter, 22, is being held alone in a cell and closely monitored by prison officials, Darling said. She will eventually be placed in the general population as she becomes acclimatized to the environment, Darling said.
Taunton Juvenile Judge Lawrence Moniz, who declared Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 after a non-jury trial, sent him to jail on Monday. In doing so, he rejected his lawyer's appeal to stay free pending appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Carter was sentenced to serve 15 months of a 2 ½ year term. The balance was suspended with probation.
Her lawyer, Joseph Cataldo, of Franklin, said that she would be eligible for parole in about seven or eight months.
The case has attracted the attention of the international community and has been made twice to the Supreme Court of Justice of the State. Last week, the High Court upheld his conviction by a unanimous decision criticized by defenders of freedom of expression.
In July 2014, Carter, then 17, forced her boyfriend Conrad Roy III, 18, of Mattapoisett, to kill himself in his truck with carbon monoxide from a water pump after a series SMS and phone calls.
Moniz discovered that she had ordered Roy, during one of the phone calls, to get back in the truck after he had gone out to try to abandon his suicide plan.
David Linton can be reached at 508-236-0338.
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