In an interview with Access Hollywood earlier in the month, Brooke Hogan revealed that fellow inmates have talked smack to her brother Nick in jail, but that he hasn’t been “physically harmed.” She said he could hold his own and that he’s been able to tell people bothering him to back off. Nick is serving 8 months in jail for his role in a car accident in which his passenger, an Iraq war veteran, was left in a permanent vegetative state. Nick was driving drunk underage last August and drag racing on a public street when he crashed into a tree and escaped unharmed, seriously injuring his friend next to him. Nick and his family have never taken responsibility for his role in the crash and have consistently blamed the victim, pointing out that he was not wearing his seatbelt and that calling him a “negative person” and his injuries “God’s will.”

It’s pretty clear now why Nick’s contact with other inmates has been limited to verbal altercations – up until now he’s been in a juvenile detention facility housed with other inmates under 18. So all that bitching he was doing about being in solitary confinement and not being able to take it in jail had to do with his confinement with other kids. He’s about to get a bitter taste of reality, though, as he just turned 18 and will be transferred to an adult jail with hardened criminals:

Turning 18 has its benefits — you get to vote, you can join the Army, and, if you’re Nick Bollea, you get transferred to a full-blown adult jail.

Bollea, who has been housed with other juveniles at Pinellas County Jail, will be moved to an adult facility on Sunday, aka his 18th birthday. It’s an open dormitory type of setting where he’ll be in close contact with other adult inmates. The inmates are either awaiting sentencing or have already been sentenced in cases ranging from misdemeanors to felonies.

The only way this won’t go down is if a judge orders otherwise. He’ll be released sometime in October.

[From TMZ]

Nick does need to go to real jail for his crime, but we all know what happens in those places and I would never wish rape on anyone. Maybe they’ll put him in a separate area or in solitary so that he’s protected from the rest of the population. Other 18 year-olds who nearly kill their best friends driving drunk don’t get such special treatment, though, and Nick doesn’t deserve it just because he’s a minor celebrity.

Picture note by JayBird: Nick Hogan is pictured at his sentencing hearing on May 13th. It’s hard to believe he’s just turning 18, looking at that forehead. Images thanks to Splash.