OJ SIMPSON'S lawyer said the actor was being isolated from other prisoners for his own safety while focusing on an appeal against his conviction for kidnapping and robbery.
Yale Galanter said he would continue to pursue a request for Simpson to be released on bail pending an appeal.
Simpson will be held in Clark County Detention Centre in Las Vegas until his December 5 sentencing, and is then expected to be transferred to state prison.
It is likely that Simpson would remain in jail during his appeal.
Mr Galanter says Simpson would be living a lonely life, advised by his lawyers to give no media interviews and allowed to see only family members and friends at the jail.
Simpson, 61, was convicted of kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers and robbing them at gunpoint in a room at the Palace Station hotel and casino in Las Vegas on September 13 last year -13 years to the day after he was cleared of double murder in America's "trial of the century".
The high-profile 1995 trial saw him cleared of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, by a jury in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, jurors who convicted Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping said they relied more on video evidence than on witness testimony.
Juror Michelle Lyons said the panellists felt they "could not rely on that witness testimony".
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