sozobe wrote:I thought it's that they're reviled and therefore don't get any particular protection from other prisoners. So they're fair game for everyone. (Less risk than in targeting someone who's a member of a prison gang, for example.)
No...the guys love finding somone worse than them.
(No crim is ever a REAL crim, at least in Oz.....the murderers say it was circumstantial, and they're not career crims...the thieves say "at least I didn't kill someone"...the druggies say "I'm and ADDICT man, wotcha gonna do? It's not like I MEANT to be a crim"....the rapists say "It weren't rape, I done been framed"...the old lags say "I'm sick of all these whinging druggies"....and so it goes.)
Rockspiders are murdered, often very brutally, raped (to prove that rape is wrong??????...that seems to go with some of the thinking here), tortured, tormented.
In the old days, here at least, guards would put them in the normal prison population, and somehow drop the information about what they had done, then look away.
Any well run prison would now have them in protection, which is pretty ******* awful in and of itself. I think the guards are now more frightened of actually organising to have them tortured and killed.