u/Difficult_Author4144

I asked this question in another sub and was told this would be a better spot for this.

I was recently watching a podcast and found something said to be interesting yet hard to believe. After spending 22 years in Prison, the individual being interviewed was released from prison. While being interviewed he dropped a bomb shell. He began to talk about the general population being filled with child predators. Explaining now a days with technology these people are caught more frequently than they used too.

He explained that general population, and low level security prisons are now filled with nothing but child predators as a result. (This is paraphrasing as he elaborated quite bit)

The confusing part that I found hard to believe was about the child predators. He explained that laws have been passed to protect these child predators. Explaining that if you punch a child predator or assault them in any way it is now a hate crime.

As I began to look into this I wasn’t able to find much. I will post what I was able to find. Is anybody able to shine more light on this? Is this really going on behind bars in America?

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/victim-attributes-hate-crime-law-difference-and-politics-justice

This is the interview. For anybody wondering he considers himself as the “cheesesteak guy” after 22 years behind bars he got out and franchised a few locations. Ontop of all his other big investments.

On the other side of things, if you ask the FBI he is still the head of the Philadelphia Italian Mafia (seems likely to me, idk anybody who went to prison for 22 years and came out worth millions)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lqv444pT0z0&si=XWE1nCqsP2K9SxhD

Edit in to add——Joey begins to talk about this at 1 hour 34 minutes.

Additional edit- thank you to those of you who provided helpful information and confirmed it to be a hate crime.

New to the sub but crazy to see so many wrong answers from your “top 1% commenter badges”

Do you remember the warm summer days as a child where you wanted some money for the ice cream truck or the candy store? Remember the lemonade stands we would set up and how much fun you’d have doing so? Learning the concept of paying for a drink or working for money? Hell as a kid if somebody gave you a dollar instead of .50 for a lemonade you felt like a millionaire!

I remember these good times and felt like a lot was learned even without realizing it as a child.

It is unfortunate…now I will see girlscout/boyscout troops and cheerleaders/football kids begging for change at the stop light. What are we teaching the youth of America……?

I wondered why we stopped seeing things like lemonade stands so I began to dig deeper. Figuring there had to be something behind it. It makes me upset and churns my stomach. Police/health department is now going around and shutting down little kids lemonade stands. I’m curious what people think about this? Is this upsetting to you as well?

It turns out this isn’t only Rhode Island… what are your thoughts?