An inmate beat two child molesters to death in prison, hours after a prison counselor ignored his warning that he might become violent.
Days before the attack, Watson said his security classification was changed and he was transferred from a single-person cell to a lower-security dormitory pod at the Central Valley facility. Watson called the switch a"careless" mistake and said he left"quite a paper trail" protesting it.
Watson, who is serving a life sentence for a 2009 murder conviction, wrote that six days after he arrived at the prison, a child molester moved into the pod. Watson believed the man began taunting other inmates by watching children's television programming. "I could not sleep having not done what every instinct told me I should've done right then and there, so I packed all of my things because I knew one way or another the situation would be resolved the following day," he wrote.
Two hours before the attacks the next day, Watson told a prison counselor that he urgently needed to be transferred back to higher-level security"before I really one of these dudes up," but the counselor"scoffed and dismissed" him, the letter says."I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1 and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again," he wrote, according to the newspaper chain.
Watson said he then left the housing pod to find a guard and turn himself in, but on the way, he saw"a known child trafficker, and I figured I'd just do everybody a favor," Watson wrote."In for a penny, in for a pound."
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