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High profile case involving sex with minors by a well known person, lots of media coverage with juicy details, an inmate who cannot defend himself, and a medium security prison = disaster.
Next they will be extorting him telling him that unless he gives them "x" amount of money on a weekly or monthly basis, they will beat him up.
It is a shame that every state and every prison system does not place all sex offenders in special prisons for their safety. California does it with their SNY yards, so it can be done.
Jared will wind up in some form of PC---protective custody---or paying extortion fees for much of his sentence.
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Here is a quote from an legal opinion of a judge regarding this, which I find appropriate----
""Persons are sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment. It is incumbent on the incarcerating body to provide the individual with a healthy habitative environment. Anything less would be to subject the individual to further punishment than was given by the sentencing trial court. With habilitation assured, then possibly or probably the inmate can decide to rehabilitate himself.""
Prison systems should do everything possible to ensure that every inmate has a safe environment to serve their sentence.
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Some prison systems make no real effort to assure the safety of inmates who may be vulnerable in the general population----sex offenders, snitches, and gang dropouts. I find that intolerable, as these men need a place to serve their sentences in such a way that they can return to society some day.
As far as protective custody or a protective custody arrangement, prisons differ somewhat. Many times they will lock someone having problems with other inmates on the yard---the prison---into SHU, which is segregative housing unit. Some places call SHU different names----RHU (restrictive housing unit), Ad Seg (administrative segregation) or DU (disciplinary unit), but they are all basically the same thing.
Since an inmate in PC---protective custody---is not being disciplined, his environment is not nearly as harsh as if he was locked up for 30 days for breaking a prison rule. In fact, it is much the same except he will have no contact with another inmate, since he is there for his own safety.
PC usually consists of a very small one man cell probably 8' x 10' with a sink, a toilet, and a locker. A one inch or so plastic mattress is placed on a steel bed frame for a bed. He can have books sent in, canteen, mail privileges, and visiting privileges. Keep in mind, that he is not being punished for being in PC, although they do use PC cells for punishment sometimes.
In PC the inmate receives his meals through a slot in the door called a "bean hole." He can have a TV and a radio as long as he has earphones for them so the noise does not bother everyone else.
He is allowed out an hour or so a day to exercise. Some prisons even have a lounge type area where an inmate can be out a few hours a day, but they try to keep inmate to inmate contact at a minimum; in some places, they prohibit contact altogether. To accomplish this, the exercise area is a completely different area than the GP---general population---uses. After all, the entire purpose of PC is to isolate the inmate from the general population.
He is allowed out an extra hour three or four days a week to shower.
The isolation is so great that many prisons keep even the PC inmates separate and do not allow them to shower together or mingle. Remember there is a hierarchy even in PC and a serial child molester is more likely to fall prey to a gang dropout or someone using PC to dodge paying some of his debts on the yard.
A PC inmate will receive mail, have canteen privileges, can get visits, and use the phone, but being in a PC unit is a terrible way to serve time.
PC units usually have more COs---correctional officers (guards)----than in general population to make sure the inmates are kept separate. The guards sometimes even escort the PC inmate to the showers.
A PC unit is mostly used for those that need protection, but sometimes PC cells are used for disciplinary purposes for inmates who have broken the rules. In these situations, there is no canteen, no TV, no radio, no visits; they do usually allow mail. An inmate being disciplined only has a bed, a sink, and a toilet---nothing else. He does, however, get the hour or so a day exercise and a shower three times a week.
Of course, different prisons handle their PC inmates differently, but the conditions at all prisons are much the same----as I outlined here.
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1. He's in LOW Federal Facility....unusual for a 15 year sentence....that would normally result in a Medium...which is much higher risk.
2. He's in one of the smallest Federal Facilities that exists....in the complex there is only Low, Minimum (camp) and a detention center (for immigrants before deportation).
3. This is one of the "on the way out" facilities, so people at the END of their sentences go there. It's away from large metropolitan areas (so no gangs, no drug dealers, not a rough crowd recently on the streets). So who at he end of a very long sentence is going to blow it by picking on someone when you know the federal government WILL put new charges on your which will immediately move you BACK to a higher security level?
4. Honey Buns aren't even on the list of commissary at this location! I've talked to inmates at three federal facilities (via their families) and they all have bran flakes and corn flakes....those are the cold cereals available daily for breakfast (NOT Frosted Flakes). And by the way, cake is available with nearly every meal at those three facilities...so there is no "cake day".
So why give credit to a "Celebrity Gossip" site? But if you do, then don't miss that Prince Jackson isn't really Michael Jackson's biological son AND 50 Cents House was bought for 8 million dollars only to become a nursing home! Seems like people want to feel justified that he's "getting what he deserves" to me.....
I believe you are right. I just took for granted that he is at medium security type facility since he had a fifteen year sentence, but a lot of the violence and confrontations just do not happen an lower security for the reasons you gave.
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BTW, when Mike Tyson went to prison there were rumors out that he was confronted and beaten up within a week. I found that hard to believe. Perhaps much of what they are saying about Jared is just an attempt to bring more traffic to their gossip site.