So why do we mix rapists with the general population in jails?

Levi at Seattlepi.com reports:

George Gregory Kelly, a 50-year-old former Seattle resident, had been slated to be released from prison this month after completing a full nine-year prison term for sexual assaults on two children. Instead, Kelly is residing at King County jail due to a prosecutors' petition that he be indefinitely detained at a state-run center for violent sexual predators.

While in prison, King County prosecutors contend Kelly groped several inmates, forcibly raped at least one other inmate and had been "grooming more vulnerable offenders" for sex.

This man had been convicted of groping a 17-year-old boy, sexually assaulting that boy's eight-year-old brother, and then—as anyone with a half a wit could predict—going on to sexually assault his fellow inmates. He reportedly wrote to prison officials: "I will show you what a sexual predator can do... Just watch me." But he wasn't placed in solitary confinement, apparently, which is where people like this belong. There's a culture of tolerating prisoner rapists, which typically target the youngest, weakest, least-violent inmates. The legislature should pass a law that prevents sexual offenders from mingling with the general population in jails and prisons. I mean, if the crime of sexual assault is so bad—and it is so bad, one of the worst—we should stop housing them in places where offenders can keep doing it.