(CNN) -- Less than two weeks after he partied with classmates in a college dorm, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now lives in drastically different surroundings. The 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect is locked inside a 10-by-10-foot cell with a steel door, a slot for food and an observation window, a prison spokesman said Sunday. Tsarnaev is able to speak and has been interacting with staff at the Federal Medical Center Devens, spokesman John Colautti said. Medical professionals at the prison medical facility, which currently houses 1,044 inmates, are making regular rounds to check on Tsarnaev, Colautti said, and Tsarnaev has spoken with staff there about managing his health.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is inside a 10-by-10-foot cell with a steel door and a slot for food
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He is able to speak and has been interacting with prison staff, a spokesman says
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The FBI searches a landfill near the suspect's college campus
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As part of investigation, Russian officials hand over wiretap of call discussing jihad
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