Hogan's son out of solitary

CLEARWATER, Fla., June 6 (UPI) -- Officials say Nick Bollea, wrestler Hulk Hogan's son, was transferred from an isolated cell to a part of Florida's Pinellas County Jail housing other teens.

Bollea, 17, is serving an eight-month sentence for reckless driving involving serious bodily injury, stemming from a 2007 car accident that critically injured his friend.

The Tampa Tribune said Bollea had been living in an isolated cell, but was moved Thursday to an area occupied by other teenage inmates and where he has access to a television.

The move came after Bollea's legal team said keeping Bollea in a solitary cell was tantamount to cruel and unusual punishment and requested he be transferred.

Sheriff Jim Coats had said he was trying to isolate Bollea from the rest of the population, which was mainly comprised of adults.

When Bollea was sentenced, there was only one other juvenile at the jail and, like Bollea, he was kept in isolation.

The Tribune said that since then, the number of juvenile inmates sentenced as adults has risen and Sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said the decision was subsequently made to put them all in the same pod.