• Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has become a notable jailhouse figure who plays checkers and cards with other inmates – but steers clear of the convicted sex offenders in his unit, according to his attorney.
• “When he came in, he obviously had a lot of notoriety and was a celebrity of sorts, but he gets along with everybody in the pod,” Jim Griffin told Fox News Digital of Murdaugh’s new home at McCormick Correctional Institution in South Carolina.
• Murdaugh, 54, is behind bars in the protective custody wing of the maximum-security prison, which houses about 28 inmates who are considered potential targets – including child abusers and former law enforcement officers.

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