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Originally Posted by carnation
I taught in the criminal justice system for 20 years and very often, a man who harmed children got it worse in jail, especially if it got around the building. Even though criminals have done bad things, most of them do love their kids.
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Originally Posted by GatorGirl27
Exactly. I'm a criminology major and a research assistant... In the criminal justice system, child and sex offenders are at the bottom of the totem pole. You do not want it to get around your prison that you hurt a kid in any way.
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Yes, well my understanding through a DoC worker is that it rarely actually works like that since so many of those in prison are there on sex offenses and many of them offended against children. It's apparently an old 'myth' and in reality in most prisons - not jails - those are the people running things. :-/