When murderers and child abusers?
People who go to prison for rape or child abuse do get protected, officers follow them to protect them from the other prisoners, but sometimes the officers accidentally leave cell doors open. The prisons are not cosy and warm, each prisoner who is sentenced are locked up 23 hours a day, imagine that, you would go mad being locked up for so long. You can not mix with other prisoners if you have killed, raped or abused women and children in fear of threats, so the life they have is lonely. Imagine the fear of not being safe, every day is another journey of loneliness and fear, by the end of 15 yr sentence, you just want to die. I have known people to go to prison got GBH, they have seen child abusers guided by prison officers, but, were allowed to shout at them as they pass. The prisoners attend victim groups to discuss there crimes, they meet up with trained specialists to work on healing, many child abusers say they would do it again, some ask not to leave prison in fear of abusing a c
