Serial rapist ex-NFL player transferred from prison to halfway house

Admitted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper has been transferred from federal prison to a halfway house program with his projected 2028 release date nearing. In a statement to the Guardian on Monday, a US Bureau of Prisons (BoP) spokesperson said Sharper, 50, was transferred on 27 May from a federal correctional institution near Elkton, Ohio, to “community confinement” overseen by the agency’s residential re-entry management office in Baltimore. The spokesperson said the transfer in Sharper’s case means he is either in home confinement or living at a residential re-entry center, a kind of facility colloquially known as a halfway house. Details about exactly where Sharper was transferred were not immediately available. The BoP has previously said it does not disclose the specific locations of people in community confinement for privacy, safety and security reasons. Sharper pleaded guilty or no contest in 2015 and 2016 in local courts in Louisiana, California, Nevada and Arizona to charges that he had drugged and raped – or tried to rape – numerous women in the four states. He also pleaded guilty in New Orleans’s federal courthouse to plotting to carry out the drugging and rape conspiracy. The case at one time commanded significant attention from the national and sports media because Sharper had won a Super Bowl championship with the New Orleans Saints in February 2010. …