Cold-blooded killers who are caught for their evil deeds are sentenced in a court of law. Once they have been handed their sentence, they will most likely spend the rest of their days behind bars. However, some individuals, who are also in the prison system, believe a different kind of justice should be served and are willing to take matters into their own hands.One of the most challenging problems that plague prisons is extreme violence between inmates. The Canadian Medical Association Journal found among prison inmates in the U.S. and Canada a lifetime prevalence of 87% for substance abuse, 56.7% for antisocial personality disorder, 22.8% for affective disorders, 15.6% for anxiety/somatoform disorders, and 2.2% for schizophrenia.This breeding ground for hostility alongside these following cold-blooded killers entering prison with a lot of notoriety turned them into sitting ducks.
10. Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer became known as “The Milwaukee Cannibal” when the partial remains of his victims—including a severed head in the fridge—were discovered in his apartment. He murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized 17 victims between 1978 to 1991. Dahmer was finally caught when an intended victim managed to escape from the building and alert the police.Sentenced to life behind bars, Dahmer’s sick and twisted sense of humor didn’t make him any friends at Wisconsin’s Columbia Correctional Institution. Dahmer was known to play with his food; sculpting his dinner to look like severed limbs and using ketchup as blood. Fellow inmate Christopher Scarver recalled, “Some people who are in prison are repentant—but he was not one of them.”
On November 28, 1994, Scarver finally had enough. When he was left on his own with Dahmer in a gymnasium; he beat the cannibal killer to death with a 20-inch metal bar from a piece of gym equipment. Scarver said, “He started looking for the door pretty quick. I blocked him. He ended up dead. I put his head down.” Dahmer died from his injuries on the way to the hospital—he was 32-years-old.
9. James “Whitey” Bulger
Boston’s most notorious crime boss and murderer James “Whitey” Bulger was killed behind bars on October 30th, 2018. Whitey had many enemies as he was a known informant for the F.B.I. He was serving a sentence for his involvement in 11 murders when he was transferred from the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma to Hazelton, West Virginia. Less than 12 hours after the transfer, Whitey was killed.Whitey was 89-years-old and wheelchair-bound when his two attackers wheeled him into a blind spot on the surveillance cameras and beat him to death with a padlock stuffed inside a sock. The beating was so severe it displaced his eyeballs and prison officials said he was “unrecognizable”. One of the main suspects behind the murder was former Mafia hitman Fotios “Freddy” Geas who was serving a life sentence for the slaying of the Genovese crime family boss in 2003.A close friend of the Bulger family said, “I hate to be morbid, but knowing the way of person he was, it’s probably a long time coming, seeing that he was responsible for so many other families and people’s misery over the years. There’s an old saying, ‘What goes around comes around.’”
