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2022-09-17 -Lurid Crime Tales-
They have their own system of justice
[TruthTent] California Inmate Beat To Death 2 Child Molesters With A Cane In Prison: After a California inmate beat two convicted child molesters to death with a walking cane, he decided to speak out about what went down behind bars. His words should serve as a warning.

Jonathan Watson, a 41-year-old California inmate, attacked David Bobb, 48, and Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, NBC Los Angeles reported. Both men were taken to the hospital with head wounds after being bludgeoned with a cane. Watson unashamedly admitted to their murders after Bobb died en route and Luis-Conti was pronounced dead three days later.

Both David Bobb and Graham De Luis-Conti were serving life sentences in prison for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14 years old, according to NBC Miami. Watson was 10 years into a life sentence for first-degree murder and discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury or death. Although Watson was a criminal himself, the crimes committed by Bobb and Luis-Conti didn’t sit well with the lifer.

Although a DOC spokesperson declined to comment on the incident, citing an ongoing investigation, Watson publicly confessed to beating the two convicted child molesters to death and gave an exclusive, detailed report about what went down to Mercury News. In a letter to the news organization, Watson first explained that he was given a lower-level security classification, leading to his transfer to the Corcoran prison. There, he was placed in dorm-style living rather than the single-person cell he had been in before.

Just six days after the transfer, Watson realized this wasn’t a good environment for him and requested to be moved after “a child molester” was housed in his pod. Watson said he told corrections officials he was close to getting violent and an attack was imminent if he wasn’t transferred, but he said his warnings fell on deaf ears. Only one week after being placed in the dorm-style prison, he snapped, beating two men to death, using another inmate’s cane.

Jonathan Watson wrote that he was detained for the killings and gave prison officials a full confession. Rather than show remorse, however, he hinted that “he may try to kill again if he is housed with child molesters in the future,” Mercury News reported. Not many would fault him for what he said:

“Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and I have so little to lose,” Watson wrote. “And trust me, we get it, these people are every parents’ worst nightmare. These families spend years carefully and articulately planning how to give their children every opportunity that they never had, and one monster comes along and changes that child’s trajectory forever.”

Jonathan Watson isn’t the only criminal to feel this way. As Robert Hood, a retired prison warden who was in charge of a federal Supermax prison in Colorado, said, “the person at the bottom of the totem pole” — even among drug dealers, murders, burglars, and worse — “is the sex offender.” These are the lowest of the low, and perhaps that’s why we all feel a sense of satisfaction when they receive the punishment they truly deserve in the form of good old fashioned prison justice.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position...

His words lead me to believe he is adequately reformed now and doesn't need to serve the rest of his sentence. We however need him outside, ASAP. Maybe as school guard.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-17 02:08||   2022-09-17 02:08|| Front Page Top

#2 

Some would say ....
Parole him and buy him a bus ticket to DC.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-17 07:10||   2022-09-17 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 So, a truly humane justice system would just execute kiddie diddlers quickly rather than make them look over their shoulders until justice finally comes.

OTOH, it's probably a great pressure relief valve for the rest of the inmates.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-17 07:17||   2022-09-17 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ..well, Jonathan Watson felt relief.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-17 08:49||   2022-09-17 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Both David Bobb and Graham De Luis-Conti were serving life sentences


And so they did.
Posted by AlanC 2022-09-17 09:01||   2022-09-17 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Nearly 200 years ago Stendahl wrote that in a certain type of bourgeois society the only distinction which could be genuinely earned was the death penalty. I guess being an advanced society we will have to make do with Life(r).
Posted by Cesare 2022-09-17 10:32||   2022-09-17 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Good to know that California does have the death penalty for child molesters, even if the state has officially outsourced it to prison inmates.
Posted by Tom 2022-09-17 11:04||   2022-09-17 11:04|| Front Page Top

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