Derek Chauvin is being held in Minnesota's most secure prison unit and away from the general population

• Derek Chauvin is in "administration segregation" at a Minnesota prison, a Department of Corrections spokesperson said.
• The spokesperson said Chauvin being held alone in a single cell in the unit for his own safety.
• He's being held at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights after being convicted of murdering George Floyd.

Derek Chauvin is being held apart from the general prison population after being convicted of murder and manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd, a spokesperson from Minnesota's Department of Corrections told Insider.

Chauvin is on "administration segregation" in a restrictive unit for his own safety, the spokesperson said. That means he is being housed alone in a single cell.

The spokesperson said Chauvin is being held in a single cell in the Administrative Control Unit (ACU) at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights, the state's most secure unit.

Inmates are put into the ACU for either for disciplinary reasons or if their presence in the general population is a safety concern, according to the Minnesota Department of Corrections' website.

The correctional facility is in Stillwater, east of Minneapolis.

Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd's death on Tuesday. In May 2020, he knelt on Floyd's neck for about nine minutes during an arrest.

He was taken into custody after the guilty was announced, and he will be sentenced in eight weeks.