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They are. The few who manage to survive in jails and prisons are generally capable of concealing their crime and misleading fellow inmates. That said, in my state you can easily go online and enter a person's name into a free, widely available database to see all of their legal history--criminal charges, divorce cases, bankruptcy filings, etc. So a person incarcerated for

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Sorry that got cut off. A person incarcerated for sexual abuse of a child, well, the inmates or their friends and family can find out what they were charged with in 30 seconds or so online. I do know that some child sex offenders are kept segregated from the other inmates, in Solitary Confinement, so they aren't attacked or summarily killed. That said, being in jail or prison can be very boring even if you're in genpop, being held in solitary for years on end can lead to mental health problems and even suicide. So they're pretty much screwed either way.

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