Prison is hard on child molesters
A man convicted of molesting and murdering a girl has had the words Katie’s Revenge tattooed on his forehead. I’m assuming it was against his will. Countertop has the skinny and pics.
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September 28th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Wow, that’s rough.
But that’s what happens.
Makes me wonder if the sicko who forcibly molested those girls in Colorado yesterday was dead set on not going to jail for what he did, or if it was a snap decision?
September 28th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Gee, this sort of thing should happen more often.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
If we want this sort of thing to happen in prisons, we should make it legal. (I don’t, personally, as that’s a great example of “cruel and unusual punishment”.)
But nodding and winking as criminal activity (assault, at bare minimum) happens because we don’t like the victim is uncivilized, and undermines the rule of Law.
“That’s what happens”, yes. But it shouldn’t, unless it’s made Official as part of sentencing in a court of law. As it is we have a horrible combination of sentences people often think are too light, “made up for” by utterly un-policed and un-regulated abuses by prisoners, which strikes me as worse than just the too-lenient sentences.
(And I guess another reason people might misbehave or commit worse crimes – in a supermax, or in solitary, this doesn’t happen as much, does it?)
September 28th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I find it really hard to believe this happened without the guards noticing. Either Colorado is being grossly negligent in terms of how it’s guarding its prisoners or they deliberately choose to let several prisoners assault another (personally I suspect the later). When the state routinely turns a blind eye to the assault, rape, or muder of prisoners it’s responsible for, it eventual has to be considered a intended part of the punishment.
It’s all well and good to fantasize about the various bizarre tortures we’d like to inflict on this guy, but when it crosses over into the state actually carrying out those fantasies, we’re degrading ourselves.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Good points, Sigivald.
Our criminal justice system is far from perfect. We put all sorts of social delinquents and mentally unstable people under the same roof and let underpaid guards man the towers and corridors. I don’t think there is a lengthy and thorough interview process, or what have you to insure that we’re putting prisoners in the best environments. Rehabilitation seems to be not just secondary, but perhaps nowhere in the mission of housing inmates.
(Not to mention the rights we permanently strip from people, even after their time is up. That deserves a thread on it’s own, but that’s up to SayUncle)
All that said, if I had to be in prison anywhere in the world, i’d likely want to be in an American prison.