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

Maddie Mogen's grandmother Kim Cheeley said in court that, after her murder, the "foundation fell out of our world."

"Initially the fear was truly debilitating," she said, and after Bryan Kohberger's arrest, her family has lived "with the effects of traumatic grief."

Cheeley said she's experienced depression and anxiety and has tried to cope with grief classes and EMDR therapy.

She said she's grateful her own mother died several months before Mogen was killed so she did not live through "the horror."

The family of Kaylee Goncalves was initially outspoken in their opposition to the plea deal that took the death penalty off the table.

"Society needs to be protected against this evil," Laramie said.

But Mogens' stepfather declined to address Kohberger directly.

"We will not waste the words. Nor will we fall into hatred and bitterness. Evil has many faces, and we now know this, but evil does not deserve our time and attention. We are done being victims. We are taking back our lives," he said, before thanking the judge.

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.