Attorneys for Hulk Hogan's jailed son Nick Bollea have filed a court request to have him moved out of solitary confinement, because the punishment is too "cruel" for a teenager to have.Bollea, 17, is currently serving an eight-month prison sentence at Florida’s Pinellas County Jail after pleading no contest to felony reckless driving following a near fatal car crash in Clearwater, Florida, which has left his best friend John Graziano brain damaged. Bollea spends between 16 and 17 hours a day in the maximum security cell, but his attorneys want to have him moved to a minimum security area and are even suggesting monitored home confinement as an option, reports
People.com. Legal papers filed in a Florida court yesterday, read: "Understandably, this situation creates an unbearable anxiety for a minor in solitary confinement. "(It) substantially amounts to cruel and unusual punishment for a juvenile and is not warranted for a non-violent first offender serving a probation sentence." Bollea’s lawyers also claim he was only placed in solitary confinement because the jail is not equipped to hold minors.
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