Chris Watts.Photo: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Getty Images
Chris Wattsis once again having a birthday behind bars — but he won’t be getting any special treatment when he turns 38 today.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, inmates don’t get a special meal, extra time in the yard or any other accommodation on their big day.
Watts, who is serving a life sentence formurdering his pregnant wife and two daughtersin 2018, is in general population at Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison, in Waupun, Wisc.
Watts currently works as a custodian at the facility, according to DOC.
A source told PEOPLE last November that Watts has been corresponding over letters with multiple women for years. “They send sexy pictures, and he responds,” according to the source who spoke to Watts several times. “There are a lot of women who think he’s handsome and misunderstood. They send a lot of letters.”
Chris Watts.
“He’s got nothing else to do,” the source said. “So he feeds his ego in that way. The only outlet he has is with these letters.”
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Watts was convicted in 2018 for the strangulation killing of his wife Shannan in their Colorado home and for smothering his daughters,Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.
After he killed Shannan, Watts drove her body to his job site at an oil company and buried her there. He then killed his two daughters.
He pleaded guilty to the murders and was given a life sentence.
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source: people.com
