Sex offender found dead in suspected homicide at San Quentin State Prison
A 66-year-old inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison early Wednesday, and state corrections officials said they are treating his death as a homicide.
John Sullivan had served half of his 10-year sentence from Placer County for failing to register as a sex offender, a second-strike.
The Associated Press found in a 2015 analysis that male sex offenders were being killed at a rate double their percentage in the prison population.
FAC Side note: the study referenced above found that male sex offenders made up about 15 percent of the prison population but accounted for nearly 30 percent of homicide victims,
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CO brags of turning a ‘cho’ into a quadriplegic:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/08/26/ohio-sued-over-prison-abuse-case-left-man-paralyzed/8199394002/
Jacob
A case of when the protector becomes the predator. The CO is no better than the inmates he is sworn to protect.
On a side note, when I clicked on the article, the kid still has an amazing smile despite all that has happened to him. Maybe he did horrible things to someone and I am not downplaying that. But like I said, when the guards get away with things like this, they themselves should be in prison.
Sad it took the lawsuit to get those involved fired after the prosecutor failed to do their job and gave them all a pass. This is what is wrong with America. We use to be the most powerful country in the World, now we are hated by just about every other country for our lack of even basic human rights anymore.
Another “sex offender” “successfully removed” from the registry.
I was SOOOO BLESSED to do my 4 years in a brand new prison. It was designed for 2500 inmates and there was only 125-150 of us there for the first 9-12 months. It was primarily a CM (high level custody) facility with no more than 300 inmates in a dorm type low custody setting. Even by the time I was getting close to the end of my sentence I had been there long enough that I had developed the respect of some of the older inmates and I still didn’t have a problem. I had friends that were there for several more years and they said that there started to be a lot of gang activity and the SO’s were getting harassed and having problems.
I spent several years in my counseling program with a good friend that had served his sentence up in New York. He was in a unit that was all sex offenders.
10 years for failure to register? Sure seems non-punitive to me.