When a man harms or kills children and ends up in prison, he becomes a target.
Even in prison, there are a few things the other prisoners will not tolerate.
Men who go to prison for harming or killing small children do not fare very well.
Other inmates put them at the bottom of the pile.
Guards know it. That is why so many of these men are housed in protective custody instead of general population.
The rest of the yard will not have them.
Even among the worst of the worst there is a line they believe should not be crossed.
A man can be in for robbery, drugs, even murder, and still treat a crime against a child as a different category.
They call those inmates names and will not eat or sit with them.
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 people, some of them boys.
Prison officials kept him isolated at first because they knew what would happen if they did not. He was later put in general population. On November 28, 1994, another inmate killed him.
John Geoghan, the Boston priest convicted of ...