A little Jail House Justice

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Sex offender's throat slashed at Folsom prison, Calif.

Jennifer Squires
Santa Cruz Sentinel

FOLSOM -- A former Live Oak man serving a 400-year prison sentence at California State Prison-Sacramento was killed by another inmate Thursday morning, authorities reported.

Convicted child molester Shannon Lee Grailing, 53, died after Steven Matthew Schultz, a convicted murderer, slashed him across the neck with an apparent inmate-made weapon, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported.

Grailing was serving the longest prison sentenced meted out in Santa Cruz County history. He sodomized a 10-year-old boy in a Santa Cruz motel in 1996 and, the following year, was convicted of five counts of child molestation.

"It's a tragic end to a tragic case," Santa Cruz police spokesman Zach Friend said Thursday.
The fatal attack happened just before 8 a.m. as Grailing pushed a laundry cart through the yard at the facility, which is adjacent to Folsom State Prison. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:10 a.m.

Schultz, 28, from Placer County, has been held in the prison since May 1999 and is serving a sentence of 26 years to life for first-degree murder.

Prison staff and the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office are investigating Grailing's death as a homicide, officials reported. The connection between the two men and the motive for the killing was not immediately clear, and the prison spokeswoman was not available to comment Thursday afternoon.

Grailing had been in the prison since July 1997.

Santa Cruz police arrested him in August 1996 for failing to notify authorities that he had moved to Oregon.

During the arrest, police found evidence at a Santa Cruz motel that Grailing had molested a 10-year-old boy there and new charges were filed.

A jury in 1997 convicted Grailing of sodomizing the child, who is the son of one of Grailing's friends. He told her he was taking the boy to the Boardwalk, but instead brought him to the Hitching Post motel on Soquel Avenue, molested him and took digital photos of the sex acts.

The boy later testified against Grailing and spoke at his sentencing hearing.

"I don't care what you're going to do with the rest of your life in prison, or whatever, but I do know that there's one less monster out there, one less person that will hurt an innocent child," the victim said when Grailing was sentenced.

A "three strikes" offender previously convicted of molesting two Watsonville boys and three boys in Washington state, Grailing was sentenced to 375 years for sodomizing the 10-year-old boy. In November 1997, the judge added another 25 years to the sentence because Grailing had failed to register as a sex offender after moving to Portland.

Grailing appealed the molestation conviction on the grounds the California's registered sex offender law, which requires some convicted sex offenders to report their residences to police, only applies to those who live in the state. The 6th District Court of Appeal ruled against Grailing.

Grailing's death is the second homicide at California State Prison-Sacramento in three weeks, an official said.

The prison houses more than 3,100 maximum-security inmates serving long sentences and those who have proved to be management problems at other institutions. The facility opened in 1986 and employs nearly 1,600 people.

[Movementarian]

Should I be feeling some sort of emotion or something?

[Craven Moorehead]

Give the killer a time-cut!!!

[Thorn]

So there IS justice in the prison system! Shame the inmates are the only ones allowed to dish it out!

How the **** is it a "tragic end to a tragic case" as the article describes it? It makes me want to laugh out in sheer joy that another sicko child molestor is out of this world and it was all done by none other than another sicko who I find less sick than the one who got what he had coming!

[GUNNER]

Originally Posted by Thorn

So there IS justice in the prison system! Shame the inmates are the only ones allowed to dish it out!

How the **** is it a "tragic end to a tragic case" as the article describes it? It makes me want to laugh out in sheer joy that another sicko child molestor is out of this world and it was all done by none other than another sicko who I find less sick than the one who got what he had coming!

They probably didn't really mean it Thorn. You know we are supposed to say things like that when the public is around and listening. So since it is just us, I'm going to say. HAHAHA ANOTHER POS OF THE COUNT.

[Bobshouse]

Even convicts have standards.

[Craven Moorehead]

Originally Posted by Bobshouse

Even convicts have standards.

Yeah, REAL CONVICTS have standards and principles. But their a dying breed. Most people doin time these days are punk ass INMATES.....

Old school hacks know the diffrence.

[jafish]

Good riddance.

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Originally Posted by Craven Moorehead

Yeah, REAL CONVICTS have standards and principles. But their a dying breed. Most people doin time these days are punk ass INMATES.....

Old school hacks know the diffrence.

Very good point. These young guys coming in now, have a different attitude than the old convicts have.

[whitebread0000]

I think I just cried for him a little bit.......