Sex offender found dead in suspected homicide at San Quentin State Prison
A 66-year-old inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison early Wednesday, and state corrections officials said they are treating his death as a homicide.
John Sullivan had served half of his 10-year sentence from Placer County for failing to register as a sex offender, a second-strike.
The Associated Press found in a 2015 analysis that male sex offenders were being killed at a rate double their percentage in the prison population.
FAC Side note: the study referenced above found that male sex offenders made up about 15 percent of the prison population but accounted for nearly 30 percent of homicide victims,
No surprise here
Sooooo, we can conclude that a minor registry violation that is based on NON punishment rules, is basically a death sentence?
Yup once again, just not punishment to even die.
Coincidentally this article followed up my earlier response in another post from today. Exactly what I was saying about prison is definitely not a place for SO’s no matter the level of severity of the charge. I mean your surrounded by hardened criminals just looking for an excuse to exploit you if they can. If you resist being exploited by them you can look foward to a regular beat down by one or several inmates, stabbed, raped, and in some cases like this article murdered. Or you can serve your time in protective custody. Protective custody (PC)
consists of a one man cell with no TV privileges and very little recreational time and no classes or work squads etc. So if you’re in good shape like I was and you have the confidence and courage to stand your ground you can somewhat maintain your safety as long as your head is on a swivel while being in the general population. But 66 yrs old I don’t imagine he would’ve been in great shape etc. Question: Does or will ACLU help or team up with FAC to assist or help with any constitutional right fights?
I’m wondering if this killing occurred in protective custody. The cell are was serving time for injury to a dependent adult causing death or great bodily injury. I can’t imagine that charge would be very highly looked upon in general population, either.
Maybe he was hoping that attacking his sex offender cellmate would get him enough respectability that he could move into general population.
What a terrible way to allow a human being to be abused and as in this case murdered!
THIS horrific outcome was allowed to happen to send the message that sex offenders are such trash they don’t even want them in prison
And that is the reason that so many of us (even if innocent) took plea bargains – I mean you can’t fight city hall you know, or at least are you willing to bet your life you can…?
So sad and even more so in these so-called equaling of the playing field for ALL INDIVIDUALS – so far, as a group, we have been excluded.
That is the problem with society today, that they have become so ingrained on any sex offense, that it’s okay for vigilantism to occur to us.
100 yrs ago there were what was called lynch mobs, where individuals going by local gossip would decide to take matters in there own hands . They would stir up others to support them and take action. Whatever they personally decided . Some law enforcement agencies took action to put a stop to such things. But now this country has digressed to the point that they are trying to not only turn there backs on such actions but even encouraged it by what they call a sex offender registry.
10 years for failure to register? Sure seems non-punitive to me.
I was SOOOO BLESSED to do my 4 years in a brand new prison. It was designed for 2500 inmates and there was only 125-150 of us there for the first 9-12 months. It was primarily a CM (high level custody) facility with no more than 300 inmates in a dorm type low custody setting. Even by the time I was getting close to the end of my sentence I had been there long enough that I had developed the respect of some of the older inmates and I still didn’t have a problem. I had friends that were there for several more years and they said that there started to be a lot of gang activity and the SO’s were getting harassed and having problems.
I spent several years in my counseling program with a good friend that had served his sentence up in New York. He was in a unit that was all sex offenders.
Another “sex offender” “successfully removed” from the registry.
CO brags of turning a ‘cho’ into a quadriplegic:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/08/26/ohio-sued-over-prison-abuse-case-left-man-paralyzed/8199394002/
Jacob
A case of when the protector becomes the predator. The CO is no better than the inmates he is sworn to protect.
On a side note, when I clicked on the article, the kid still has an amazing smile despite all that has happened to him. Maybe he did horrible things to someone and I am not downplaying that. But like I said, when the guards get away with things like this, they themselves should be in prison.
Sad it took the lawsuit to get those involved fired after the prosecutor failed to do their job and gave them all a pass. This is what is wrong with America. We use to be the most powerful country in the World, now we are hated by just about every other country for our lack of even basic human rights anymore.