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It is a bit odd, isn't it? That prisoners in the prison system have their own system of 'justice', and rules about what is acceptable and what isn't. Rapists, child-molesters, etc., reportedly get attacked and murdered in prison, or else they are confined away from the general prison population for their own safety.
It's odd, yet strangely logical, that even inmates have boundaries and levels which they won't cross. The inmates who steal cars draw the line at directly hurting people, and may think that rapists deserve much worse than those who steal cars. And the people who rob at gunpoint may think that child molesters are the lowest of the low, and thus cross 'the line', and deserve to be punished.
I wonder if it is a matter of prisoners punishing those who they think have crossed a line (that is set much lower than that of general society), or if it is a matter of tradition, or asserting strength and domindance in the prison system before someone else can do so to you?
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