Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
PVC is correct here. People who go to prison on rape-charges lie and say they are in for murder, not to be 'harder', but because there is a very strong taboo against it. The way it has been explained to me in the past is that people are in prison for crimes against society, they either crimes of passion, or crimes against property, or gang related. These prisoners are still people and all have families back at home, so when a rapist or child molester comes, it isn't just some guy who stole a TV, or killed someone they had a grudge with, but these are people who preys on their sisters and mothers, or who would prey on their children, nephews and nieces. So to these prisoners, the rapists and molesters are viewed as the ultimate scum of society.
An addendum to this - we spend millions every years protecting rapists and child molesters inside prison.

The reason?

Well - simply put, if the other prisoners look down on you for killing your wife a good way to mitigate some of that is to "execute" a "nonce".

The irony being that whilst many in the UK would probably call this Karma (not publicly, of course) we can't allow these monsters to be killed in prison because that's not the sentence handed down and letting it happen would make a mockery of justice.