[copaliscrossing]

I do hope that Phillip Garrido and his wife has a very enjoayble time in their respective prisons. I hope that they are made to realize that what they did was wrong and that their friends in the joint makes it very clear that they understand that. They need to be reminded EVERY SINGLE DAY they are in prison. Abuse a child and you’re dead meat inside. Your buddies will take care of you in their way. Remember Jeffrey Dhammer?

YES! There seems to be a "code" on the "inside" in which those that have harmed a child are treated harshly.... to say the least. I guess in a kind of warped way, you have to like that.

[davius]

Prisoners retain all of the basic instincts that impel everyone else. They want to provide for their families yet they cannot provide. They want to protect their loved ones yet they are unable to protect them. They know better than most, the kind of monsters that can hide behind a human face. The visceral disgust that the average person feels toward Garrido is amplified a hundredfold in the impotent echo chamber of a cell. Garrido and his ilk represent the worst fears of the inmate population with regard to their families. That is why child molesters and rapists are hated and targeted in the prison population. There isn't anything noble about it. Many of those who take the most aggressive stance are one opportunity away from being the same creature themselves yet they lack the insight to detect that no “normal” person would feel comfortable in leaving them alone with their wife or child. Regardless, they have their instincts and those instincts are frustrated and denied them. When faced with a personification of their fears; like Garrido, the population slavers to strike their personal blow to extinguish the anxieties that consume them. Of course, the authorities recognize this and will take measures to protect his well-being because that is their job. But institutional memories are incredibly porous, personnel change, and it is the nature of inmates to work towards more; not less, freedom. In a correctional setting there are only two states of time. There is Right Now and there is Not Right Now. When Right Now arrives for Garrido, there will be an inmate who sleeps better that night. Not because he has removed a burden from society but because he believes he has sent a message to all the other monsters to leave his family off their list of prowls.

[Elendur]

“YES! There seems to be a “code” on the “inside” in which those that have harmed a child are treated harshly....”
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and davius explains it extremely well.
i’ve often seen this idea of “prison justice” expressed here.

but i’m ASHAMED that we need to rely on criminals,
to illegally give the punishment that is so richly deserved.

...”I cannot think of a name” is closer to how it should be!

if society cannot have the courage to punish those, who victimize the most vulnerable and innocent members of that society, that is beyond shameful.