Bryan Kohberger sentencing: Idaho college student killer sentenced to life in prison

Scott Laramie, victim Maddie Mogen's stepdad, read a statement on behalf of himself and Karen Laramie, Mogen's mom, as Bryan Kohberger, wearing orange jail clothing, looked on.

"Karen and I are ordinary people, but we lived extraordinary lives because we had Maddie. Maddie was taken senselessly and brutally in a sudden act of evil," Laramie said.

"Since Maddie's loss, there's emptiness in our hearts, home and family -- an endless void," he said.

Laramie said Mogen's mom suffered from anxiety and depression after her daughter's death, unsure how to go on.

Idaho's only maximum security prison could soon be home to Bryan Kohberger.

The Idaho Maximum Security Institution, opened in 1989 to confine the state's "most disruptive male residents," has garnered nationwide attention following an aborted execution due to a botched lethal injection and a prisoner-led hunger strike demanding better conditions.

While the plea will allow Kohberger to avoid the death penalty, he could still be in close proximity to the state's eight male death row prisoners who are also housed in the Kuna, Idaho, facility. Those prisoners include Chad Daybell, who was convicted in the 2019 killings of his first wife and two of his second wife's children.

Kohberger is expected to return to court in Boise Wednesday for his sentencing, and could be transferred just over 10 miles down the road to the state's maximum security prison right after.

Here's a look at what life inside the Idaho Maximum Security Institution could be like

The male-only facility, located just south of Boise, is surrounded by a double perimeter fence reinforced with razor wire and equipped with an electronic detection system, according to its website.

It has the capacity to house 549 people, and has a unit for civilly committed psychiatric patients, which has faced backlash from the National Alliance on Mental Illness for using a prison to house people with mental illnesses in need of mental health treatment.

The prison's strict solitary confinement policies have also sparked concern.

Read more about Idaho's only maximum security prison here.

Surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen addressed Bryan Kohberger in court, calling him a "hollow vessel, something less than human -- a body without empathy, without remorse."

"He tried to take everything from me: my friends, my safety, my identity, my future," she said. "He took their lives, but I will continue trying to be like them, to make them proud. Living is how I honor them."

Surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen spoke in court through tears, saying, "He didn't just take their lives, he took the light they carried into every room."

"He took away my ability to trust the world around me" and "shattered me in places I didn't know could break," she said.

"I was barely 19 when he did this. We had just celebrated my birthday at the end of September. I should've been figuring out who I was. I should've been figuring out the college experience ... instead I was forced to learn how to survive the unimaginable. I couldn't be left alone. I had to sleep in my mom's room because I was too terrified to close my eyes," she said.

Mortensen recalled intense panic attacks and flinching at sudden sounds. "Sometimes I drop to the floor with my heart racing convinced something is very wrong. ... It's my body reliving everything over and over again," she said.