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Summary Former Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Amir has been shifted to a safer seaside prison in UK.
Amir, who began serving his six-month sentence at Feltham Young Offenders Institution in West London on November 3, has been transferred to Portland Prison on the Dorset coast.Feltham is a grim place to be - especially for a young international sports star. Amir will be glad to get out. And Portland is a walk in the park by comparison, the Sun quoted a source, as saying.Feltham had earlier come under scanner after a racist cellmate had murdered his Muslim inmate. A 2010 report had pointed out frequent fights and gang culture in the jail.Pakistani media have mocked clifftop Portland Prison as a youth hostel as it detains 480 men aged between 18 and 21.The Prison Service refused to comment on the issue.Amir is expected to appeal against his sentence for bowling deliberate no- balls in exchange for payments at a Lords match against England in August 2010.
