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Bryan Kohberger is not getting along with other inmates behind bars. The man convicted of the brutal 2022 home invasion of four University of Idaho students in a gruesome killing spree asked prison officials this month to be transferred out of his housing assignment, citing “daily” harassment from other inmates, according to recent legal filings reviewed by PEOPLE. Kohberger, who was sentenced last month to life without parole in the killings of Xana Kernodle, 20, Bryan College student, her boyfriend Ethan Chaplin, 21, and their friends Julian Norton, 21, and Gaby Petkevicius, 20, has complained repeatedly of harassment since arriving at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution (ISMI) in early January. He is being held in an area of the prison that’s called J Block, where it keeps “maximum custody” prisoners, including death row inmates.

“I am currently experiencing daily verbal threats by others on a minute-by-minute basis in J Block at ISMI,” the 30-year-old former Ph.D. criminology student wrote in a Jan. 11 handwritten note to state Department of Correction (DOC) officials, obtained by PEOPLE. In a Jan. 9 handwritten complaint Kohberger also filed, the document was redacted by the DOC. However, in a Jan. 13 letter Kohberger shared in the filings, he alleged that one inmate told him, “I’ll b— f— you” and that another said: “The only a– we’ll be eating is Kohberger’s.” In his Jan. 11 note, Kohberger asked to be moved from Tier 2 of J Block and requested to be placed in the prison’s B Block area, where he would be “removed to a quieter area of the institution,” according to the document. Kohberger had brought up the matter for the first time in a handwritten request two days after he had been assigned to J Block on Jan. 8, according to the filings. He filed a follow-up note less than a week later.

Kohberger, who was arrested in early December and charged with the murders of four University of Idaho students, has made it clear in his notes that he has not engaged in other troublesome behavior like “flooding” or “striking,” prison slang for acts of clogging toilets or sinks in cells to create water damage or refusing work, fighting or otherwise acting out. In a sworn statement included in the new filings, an unnamed ISMI guard verified Kohberger’s complaint and said, “I am aware of guards on Tier 2 in J Block hearing vulgar comments being made toward the defendant.”

In another statement, a correctional officer said, “I cannot remember specifically when I heard the inmates making these comments but they were made.” Kohberger remains in J Block as of this week, with no word of a possible move from state prison officials. “This issue is pending,” the DOC said in a statement provided to PEOPLE. Kohberger’s J Block Assignments and Escalating Complaints

The man who was convicted last month of the quadruple murder he has also been ruffling some feathers in his earlier time behind bars. In the months before his sentencing, Kohberger was also mocked by other inmates at the county jail where he was being held after his arrest, PEOPLE previously reported. In one video call from jail to his mother, someone in the background could be heard yelling: “Mommy. What the hell is that? Stop it. You sick son of a b—.” Another inmate called him a “f—ing weirdo” and later told a correctional officer that if he wasn’t in jail, he would have “splattered” Kohberger, according to trial court filings.

Kohberger came across in court as painfully shy and socially awkward. In court filings, his lawyers described him as lacking in social cues and “exhibiting a piercing stare that made people uneasy around him.” Another inmate described him in jail in the same terms. Experts have told PEOPLE that because of his high-profile case, it’s a given Kohberger is getting grief from other inmates. “In a high-security prison like Idaho’s, threats against high-profile inmates nearly always occur,” one prison consultant told PEOPLE. “In Mr. Kohberger’s case, his personality makes it more likely that this kind of problem will occur.” Kohberger has lost weight and some prison experts are concerned that he may suffer the same fate of another infamous inmate, Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer who was murdered in prison by another inmate. Kohberger is in a part of the Idaho prison that holds the state’s worst criminals, including Chad Daybell, who is on death row. He is to serve out the rest of his life in prison under supervision.