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Originally Posted by Schwan
I've heard before about the issue of prison inamtes killing child molesters, and that it was, for a time, a normal thing around the world. Also, there was a similar issue with women charged with killing their children, who would often be abused or killed by fellow inmates while serving their jail terms. What I don't understand is how prison inmates can claim to have a moral right to judge and punish other prison inmates. It's like that pot & kettle thing.
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You don't see how people who have committed crimes considered lesser in their society can judge others? If that's the case, nobody should go to jail. There are degrees to crimes, and it's not realistic to think that this would be different just because everyone is in prison.
Also, I have read that now most child molesters are kept segregated in their own wings in prison.
And as for the castration issue, many psychologists feel that it is effective in some cases. Even if rape is often about power, that isn't always the case in child molestation. And even if it is, by removing alot of the various producers of testosterone, the drive for violence is often found to go down. I researched this a small amount a couple of years ago for a report I did on the sex offender registry laws that were being enacted them. Chemical castration especially is found to often reduce recidivism in child molesters (in the few instances it's been used).