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...killing of John Geoghan??€”the defrocked priest who sexually abused approximately 150 children and precipitated a crisis in the American Catholic Church—illustrates the failures of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and of American prison policy...
Geoghan was strangled and beaten to death in the protective custody unit of a maximum security prison in Worcester, Mass. last month. His alleged killer was Joseph Druce, an inmate with a history of violent outbursts. The two were in the same cell block despite the facts that Geoghan??€™s crimes were well known among the inmate population and Druce was serving a life term for the similarly brutal 1988 murder of a man he believed to be homosexual...
...endured guards’ taunting, contaminated food and excrement placed on his bed in the first prison he was placed. It has also been reported that the guards in the maximum security prison to which Geoghan was moved had been warned that Druce was acting suspiciously outside of Geoghan??€™s cell, well before the murder took place...
...obvious step Massachusetts must take to prevent the most egregious incidents, such as Geoghan??€™s murder and predictable rapes, is to have separate prisons—or at least separate cell blocks and common areas—for the most vulnerable prisoners. Wardens and correctional system officials know the types of criminals and the individuals who are most at risk in the prison system and can simply sort them...
...Suffolk County courthouse regarding, among other things, a settlement that his Financial Council refused to accept between several church officals, including Law, and 86 victims of priest John J. Geoghan. This disturbing refusal completely disregards the archdiocese’s responsibility to compensate those who were sexually abused by Geoghan??€”especially after Law reassigned him to parishes several times after he was a known child molester. While it is impossible to replace these victims’ damaged childhoods, a financial settlement both acknowledges the archdiocese’s responsibility for reassigning Geoghan and will begin to heal...