Sex offenders’ prison deaths often are ‘choreographed’
The following are excerpts from a Miami Herald Opinion piece on the murders of persons required to register as sex offenders in prison.
“[W]e know violence and abuse in prisons aren’t always the result of supervisory vacuums. In fact, deaths of people accused of sex offenses are rarely accidental; they’re highly choreographed and implicitly endorsed executions.
The AP found that, in California, a third of all inmate homicides happen to sex offenders. That may not seem like much. But when you consider that the California corrections system is rife with gang warfare, the fact that one third of these victims were almost definitely not in gangs is telling…half of all inmates murdered in Maine’s prisons system were convicted of sex offenses. A quarter of Oklahoma’s inmate homicide victims in 10 years bore convictions for sex crimes. At a conservative estimate, 75 percent of murder victims in Nebraska prisons were sex offenders.
None of these statistics offends many people; safeguarding sex offenders is repugnant to most.
Prison administrators are often complicit with these homicides. When one inmate in the Tarrant County, Texas Jail killed his cellmate, a man convicted of sex crimes against children, an officer and two nurses watched the attack for 11 minutes before intervening. While investigators ferreted out and charged the inmates who assaulted guards and started fires in the 2015 Nebraska prison riot that left two men convicted of sex crimes dead, no one has solved the murder mysteries from those same events.
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A man I called friend who had changed his life and was very active in the camp’s chapel was murdered after he was placed in a cell with an inmate who had already killed and threatened to kill more “sex offenders”:
http://on-murders.blogspot.com/2010/02/fl-franklin-inmate-stabbed-to-death.html.
If you have the stomach for it, here’s the “oaf-icial” report:
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/mortality/PDF/165229.pdf
RIP Nate. I know you are in heaven.
Jz, do you know how nate violated ?
If you read the “duties of a guard” it says the protection of property and life. They all need to be made accountable when these things happen. The constitution guarantees equal protection of law for everyone. If they start prosecuting these guards for complicity, or dereliction of duty it would help stop a lot of it.