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Sheriff says Aaron Hernandez views jail “more like training camp”

AP

The man who was in charge of Aaron Hernandez’s last 18 months in jail said the former Patriots tight end should fit right in now that he’s been sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder.

He doesn’t really look at it as jail,” Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told the Associated Press. “It’s more like training camp.”

Hodgson described Hernandez as a prisoner who got by on his charm, though one who reacted poorly to perceived “disrespect” (which might explain why he was convicted of killing Odin Lloyd).

Hodgson said not even the guilty verdict changed Hernandez’s demeanor, recalling him saying: “I’ll miss you guys, but they got it wrong.