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GreenKnight127 posted...

I've always wondered how fellow inmates find out EXACTLY what other inmates are in for....

I mean, I'm not trying to defend baby-beaters and pedophiles.....but it's well-known that those guys always get tortured in prison.

And, knowing that.....isn't there some kind of moral obligation, by the state, to protect them from inhumane punishment?

Is prison primarily for PUNISHMENT or REHABILITATION?

Because if prison guards are going around telling all the inmates that the new guy is in for child porn.....the prison guard HAS to know that the inmates are going to murder him for it. So isn't that prison guard partially guilty of a crime? Isn't that third degree murder in a way?

And if the prisoners are finding out what everyone's in for due to public records or whatever......how the hell are they getting access to public records? They're in fucking PRISON!

This never made sense to me.

Do any of you know?

Prisons have televisions, and with most high profile cases inmates find out just by watching TV in their cells. For cases that aren't televised, they rarely find out. Even still a lot of the inmates who have been around a while can tell from little clues like how the guards treat them, how much they are allowed to interact with the general population, etc. Plus the rumor mill is huge in prison, what else you going to do when you are around the same people 24/7?
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