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■ Bill Cosby has been moved to a general population unit as he serves three to
10 years in prison for sexual assault in Pennsylvania. The move last week came after the 81-year-old actor spent about four months in special housing as he acclimated to SCI-Phoenix in suburban Philadelphia. A jury last year convicted Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. He is appealing the conviction. Cosby, who is legally blind, now has a single cell in a two-story unit at the newly built prison in Montgomery County. Other inmates are assigned to help him throughout the day, given his age and disability, state prison spokesman Amy Worden said. Inmates there can spend several hours a day in the gym or exercise yard, and other time in the library, classroom, day room or visiting area. There is a sink and toilet in each cell, and inmates are allowed to keep a TV or tablet there if they buy them. Inmates at Phoenix are awakened at 6 a.m. and are back in their cells by 8:45 p.m. The prison conducts seven head counts each day, Worden said. Cosby, a Philadelphia native, rose to fame in the 1960s as the first black actor to star in a prime-time television drama with the hit show, I Spy. He became known as “America’s Dad” for his portrayal of family man Cliff Huxtable on the top-ranked Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992.
■ Cindy McCain is apologizing after inaccurately claiming that she stopped a human-trafficking episode at the Phoenix airport when she reported a toddler with a woman of a different ethnicity and “something didn’t click.” McCain, an outspoken advocate for preventing human trafficking, is the widow of former U.S. Sen. John McCain. “I came in from a trip I’d been on,” McCain said Monday on Phoenix radio station KTAR during an interview on trafficking at the Super Bowl in Atlanta. “I spotted — it looked odd — it was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had. Something didn’t click with me. I tell people ‘trust your gut.’ I went over to the police and I told them what I thought, and they went over and questioned her, and by God she was trafficking that kid.” While Phoenix Police Sgt. Armando Carbajal confirmed McCain requested a welfare check on a child at the airport on Jan. 30, Carbajal said “officers determined there was no evidence of criminal conduct or child endangerment.” That prompted McCain, who adopted a daughter from Bangladesh, to praise police for their diligence, writing Wednesday on Twitter: “I apologize if anything else I have said on this matter distracts from ‘if you see something, say something’.”