A former child star jailed for rape will now spend his time in one of California’s most notorious jails.
Danny Masterson, best known to UK audiences for playing rebellious record shop manager Steven Hyde in hit sitcom That ’70s Show, was convinced of raping two women. He is now isserving his 30-year sentence in Corcoran State Prison’s The Protective Housing Unit.
The unit is where high-profile lags who at risk of attack from other inmates are housed alongside Death Row inmates.
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But even that unit doesn’t guarantee safety. In 2019, points out podcaster Jumpsuit Pablo, inmate Jaime Osuna used a home-made shiv to decapitate his cellmate, Luis Romero, and dissect his body.
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The podcaster explained: “His entire head was removed, and then the body was posed a certain way in the cell. He had the corners of his mouth sliced by a makeshift prison knife to resemble a joker-type smile, so Danny Masterson is anywhere but in protective custody. There’s nothing protective about where he’s at.”
The unit has been home to some of America’s most notorious criminals, including Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated senator Robert Kennedy, and so-called “Dating Game” serial killer Rodney Alcala.
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A Los Angeles Times article described Corcoran as “the most troubled of the 32 state prisons,” pointing out that officers there had shot and killed more inmates “than any other prison in the country”.The unit where Masterson is being held is no guarantee of safety, Pablo added. “There’s really no such thing as protective custody…you’re still surrounded by people who could at any moment in time decide to harm you,” he continued.
He claimed Masterson’s only hope of survival is to pay protection money to the most dangerous inmates.
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The Protective Housing Unit holds a number of men who were, for one reason or another, ejected from LA’s deadly street gangs. “Just because they drop out of a gang doesn’t mean they’ve suddenly lost all the dangerous aspects of who they are,” Pablo explained. “These are still guys with a extremely violent past and now they’re just grouped together somewhere else because their own gang had problems with them.
“Danny Masterson is still surrounded by these violent dangerous, decapitation-capable people.”
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