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Originally posted by sunnydays96:
No. Maximum security and even smaller prisons don't discriminate and section off criminals by crime. Their reasoning, "for what, they are all criminals" and one doesn't get "preferential treament for a "less serious crime".
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Actually, thats not entirely true. In some prisons, for prisoner and officer safety, they do seperate prisoners into certain groups. Like, if a prison is overrun by members of a certain gang, they have been known to place members of rival gangs in seperate wings and sections. The same with white and black supremacist groups. And we all know that child molestors are prisoners favorite targets, and in some prisons, these offenders can spend most of their sentence in "the hole" in order to protect them from an inevitable death at the hands of the other prisoners.
Regardless of why they are in prison, the sate still have a duty to protect them during their time of incarceration. And, if an inmate dies due to the negligence of the penal system, familes can and do sue.