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The Associated Press
Minneapolis

Moose Lake man convicted in 1999 killing now in medium security

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Donald Albin Blom
This undated photo provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Donald Albin Blom. Blom convicted in the 1999 killing of convenience store clerk Katie Poirier is now in a medium-security prison in Faribault, Minn. Blum was shifted in February 2017 from a maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights, Minn.
Minnesota Department of Corrections via AP

The man convicted in the 1999 killing of Katie Poirier is now in a medium-security prison in Faribault.

Donald Blom was shifted in February from a maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights.

Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sarah Fitzgerald said the agency doesn't comment on why specific inmates are transferred for security reasons. But she says in general that security levels are based on factors such as an inmate's security risk, the safety of staff and other inmates and medical needs of the inmate.

The prison includes a unit for geriatric inmates.

Blom, now 68, confessed to strangling the 19-year-old Poirier and burning her body in a pit on his property in Moose Lake.

He is serving a life sentence.