In 2023, Watkins was taken hostage by three other inmates for six hours; he suffered stab wounds and beatings before he was eventually freed by prison officers.
lol goddamn. the fact that his crimes did or were going to involve babies means he truly deserved the worst. this is the kind of person who should be locked up for life with no parole. i wish i could be a prison abolitionist but some people absolutely need to be locked up. he was eligible for parole eventually. WAS. its crazy he lasted this long in prison.
Two co-defendants, who were the mothers of Watkins’ victims, were sentenced to 14 and 17 years in prison.
FYI that first time he got held hostage was over a drug debt he owed to other prisoners.
The prison he was in is designated for sex offenders and people who have committed multiple murders, most of the people he was in with weren’t much better than him.
CW discussion of violence and sex abuse.
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Also FYI I’ve heard from people incarcerated that the whole “pedos always get murdered in the joint” is grossly exaggerated. Dudes hoping to get parolled eventually usually don’t want a murder on their prison record. Apparently the only time it really happens is if the guy is like openly bragging about the people he abused, which apparently does happen fairly often (like damn, if I got locked up for something fucked like that I’d kept my mouth fucking shut). Hell, Dahmer got killed because he kept making mashed potato figures of kids and chopping them up and covering them in ketchup. Apparently other prisoners, including the guy who eventually killed him, went to him and were like “dude cut this shit out, it’s fucking creepy and if you keep it up someone is going to fucking shiv you, just quietly do you damn time and people will leave you alone”.
lol goddamn. the fact that his crimes did or were going to involve babies means he truly deserved the worst. this is the kind of person who should be locked up for life with no parole. i wish i could be a prison abolitionist but some people absolutely need to be locked up. he was eligible for parole eventually. WAS. its crazy he lasted this long in prison.
holy fuck wow the mothers were accomplices
FYI that first time he got held hostage was over a drug debt he owed to other prisoners.
The prison he was in is designated for sex offenders and people who have committed multiple murders, most of the people he was in with weren’t much better than him.
CW discussion of violence and sex abuse.
spoiler
Also FYI I’ve heard from people incarcerated that the whole “pedos always get murdered in the joint” is grossly exaggerated. Dudes hoping to get parolled eventually usually don’t want a murder on their prison record. Apparently the only time it really happens is if the guy is like openly bragging about the people he abused, which apparently does happen fairly often (like damn, if I got locked up for something fucked like that I’d kept my mouth fucking shut). Hell, Dahmer got killed because he kept making mashed potato figures of kids and chopping them up and covering them in ketchup. Apparently other prisoners, including the guy who eventually killed him, went to him and were like “dude cut this shit out, it’s fucking creepy and if you keep it up someone is going to fucking shiv you, just quietly do you damn time and people will leave you alone”.