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Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted in the murder of four University of Idaho students, is reportedly asking to be moved to another housing unit at the state prison. In several handwritten notes to prison officials, Kohberger has stated that he’s been harassed and threatened by other inmates since he was transferred to J Block, according to the Wall Street Journal. Kohberger, 30, is serving a life sentence at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution after being found guilty in the April 2022 stabbing deaths of Ellie Riley, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves. In an early handwritten note first reported by People, Kohberger wrote that he has been “verbally harassed” on a “minute-by-minute basis since being placed” in J Block. “Inmates have been standing outside my door threatening to sexually assault me with various comments including one individual saying, ‘I’ll b— f— you,’” he wrote. “Others have said, ‘The only a– we’ll be eating is Kohberger’s.’”

Inmates have also allegedly said they would “rape” him and “stab” him, Kohberger added in the note. He also said that the verbal threats began on the second day he was housed in J Block and have persisted since then. Kohberger, who was a Ph.D. candidate in criminology, was not eligible for parole at the time of his sentencing, his attorney Steve Houles said in a statement after the decision. He must serve 30 years before he can request parole. Kohberger’s next sentencing hearing will take place in February, the Journal reported.

In one handwritten note, Kohberger said he was trying to be moved to another type of administrative segregation, also known as “ad-seg.” Also called protective housing, ad-seg is “designed to protect inmates from other inmates or to maintain institutional safety and security,” according to the Idaho Department of Correction. “Tier 2 of J Block is an environment that I wish to transfer from if possible,” Kohberger wrote in one of the notes. “I request transfer to B Block immediately. I wish to speak with you soon.”

He added in the note that he had not taken part in “flooding or striking.” Flooding is commonly prison slang for clogging sinks or toilets with waste in an effort to do damage to the facility or plumbing. Striking can mean a refusal to work, physical altercations, or other disobedience. Kohberger claimed he had not been involved in either and should be moved for his own protection. As of Wednesday, prison records showed that Kohberger was still in J Block, and state officials have not indicated that they plan to move Kohberger to a different section of the prison.

He was not, however, having a smooth time in his previous place of incarceration either. While he was held in the Latah County Jail on murder charges, he was often taunted by fellow inmates. In a jailhouse video call to his mother after he was arrested, one of the other inmates could be heard yelling, “you suck.” A former prison guard testified during Kohberger’s trial that another inmate called him a “f—ing weirdo” and said that he would have “beat his a–” if not for the “back of his mind thinking we’d get caught.”

Kohberger’s trial revealed that he was a socially awkward individual with a “piercing stare” and “low social awareness.” “They can see that from afar. And when you’re the most high-profile criminal on death row or serving a life sentence or in prison, that is a target right off the bat,” Adam Milton, a prison culture expert and consultant to NBC News, told the network about Kohberger’s situation. Kohberger also walked into prison already with a bullseye on his back, according to another prison culture consultant, Ross Bonn. “Every prisoner of a certain level of notoriety,” particularly for a violent crime like murder, “becomes the focus of other prisoners,” Bonn told NBC. “It’s very easy for any prison inmate to target someone who’s now a high-profile offender.”

Judging by prison documents, Kohberger’s behavior and attitude have not gone unnoticed by his fellow inmates. Bonn also told NBC that Kohberger was “extremely quiet” during his court appearances and presented as “detached from everything.” Other observers, meanwhile, have noted that Kohberger has lost weight during his 2.5 years in prison. He looks thinner than he did during his trial, the Gazette of Montana reported last week.

The Idaho Maximum Security Institution has housed some of the state’s most notorious criminals over the years, including recent addition Chad Daybell, who was recently moved to death row. Kohberger, however, has had an especially difficult time acclimating. In fact, some have compared his situation to that of Jeffrey Dahmer, who spent years getting harassed and taunted by fellow inmates in the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, before being killed by a fellow inmate in 1994. “A friend of mine who’s a corrections officer, an Idaho DOC retired employee, has called the situation very similar to Jeffrey Dahmer and Jeffrey Dahmer’s time in prison,” Bonn told NBC. “And in Dahmer’s case, it was a bad end.”