Thanks for the info….glad i found this site.

I would add, in those cases where SO’s DID get assaulted, it may have had nothing to do with their being SO’s. They could have gotten belligerent and disrespectful towards a volatile person, for example. And some component of this is on display in this Pinellas County incident, which allegedly involved a dispute over the remote. And County jail, where people of different security levels are all mixed together, tends to be short term.

Just as we pass bad sex laws from isolated incidents, so too do we read a lot into isolated incidents in prison. They are not typical, especially in the feds, except maybe at the highest security level, where the inmate population sets certain rules about where SO’s may and may not go. But my guess is most have come out without ever having been assaulted. And as FAC points out here, an SO in prison is hardly alone. For those who begin their sentence in county jail or detention center, it may seem quite grim, but it is usually uphill from there.

EB – MANY, MANY of the contributors to this post have survived incarceration for a sexual offense. Some places are worse than others, state is generally worse than federal, but by this point the percentage of “sex offenders” in the system is so high that the risk and isolation is not like it used to be. Like I said, many got through it – you will too.

Would you or anyone else be able to give insight as to how much harder it is for people convicted of a sex offense to survive in prison? I am being accused of a sex offense right now, of which i did not do, and prison is a possibility.