TAUNTON, Mass. — Michelle Carter, who encouraged her teenage boyfriend to kill himself, has begun serving a 15-month jail sentence.

A judge rejected her request Monday to remain free while she appeals her involuntary manslaughter conviction to the U.S .Supreme Court, and she was taken directly to jail.

Conrad Roy was 18 when he killed himself on July 12, 2014, by sitting in his exhaust-filled pickup truck in the parking lot of a Kmart in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. In his last minutes, he had been talking to Carter, his girlfriend, by phone and text message. When he had second thoughts, Carter ordered him to “get back in” the pickup, the text messages showed.

The 22-year-old woman, her once-long blond hair cropped short, was led out of Bristol County Juvenile Court after a Monday hearing before Judge Lawrence Moniz that lasted less than 10 minutes.

She was taken into the women’s center at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth, where she was due to spend the first night in the medical area, as is common for people incarcerated for the first time, said Jonathan Darling, spokesman for Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.

“She’s very high-profile, but she’ll be treated just like any other inmate,” Darling told the Herald.

Behind bars, Carter will have 15 TV channels to watch and, if her behavior is good, the chance to go out and paint a church to get some time off her sentence.

In general population, Carter, in tan scrubs, will live in a cell setup like a college dorm room, sharing the space with one other inmate, Darling said. She’ll be allowed one visit a week by family or friends, but as many lawyer visits as she wants, he said.

The jail accommodates about 100 women.

All of the inmates can try to get credit for up to 10 days of good behavior a month by working in jailhouse jobs, entering therapy or doing work out in the community. Bristol County inmates have been sent to do activities such as painting churches. Those external jobs are for inmates who have behaved well and are near the end of their sentences, Darling said.

Carter is not the first high-profile inmate at Bristol: The men’s unit housed former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez for 18 months before he was transferred to a maximum-security prison to serve his sentence for murder.

Carter was convicted in 2017 for her role in Roy’s suicide but remained free while her lawyers appealed her conviction to the state’s highest court.

That court, the Supreme Judicial Court, last week rejected arguments that Carter’s text messages and cellphone calls with Roy were forms of free speech protected under the First Amendment. The SJC also denied her lawyers’ emergency motion Monday seeking further delay of her sentence.

Joseph P. Cataldo, one of her lawyers, said the case “legally is not over,” adding that their First Amendment arguments are “still ripe” and should be addressed at the federal level.

Cataldo also said his client suffered from anorexia and depression at the time of her final conversation with Roy.

On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Maryclare Flynn said: “Today has been a long time coming. As always, our sympathies remain with the family of Conrad Henry Roy III. … We are very content with what happened today in court.”

“This has been a four-year ordeal for our family,” Roy’s aunt, Becky Maki, said afterward outside court. “It’s been hard to live out the details of his death over and over again.”

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Bay Area teacher admitted to ‘sexual attraction’ to boys years before he lost job, and was indicted for alleged sex tourism in Vietnam, feds say But Roy’s family feels that justice has been served, Maki said, adding that the only good that may have come from his suicide is a new focus on mental illness.

Carter’s parents declined to comment as they left the court.