Do they try converting their guards and cellmates? Do they get in conflicts with the gangs? How do they adjust from being worshiped to just being another criminal? Or go from being leader of their compound to being put in solitary?
Where?
What happens to cult leaders in prison?
Submitted 4 months ago by HammyMcBurgers@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Cult personalities aren’t just another criminal any more than they are just another person.
They used their charisma and cunning to influence people, and unless they’re manson-level, many cult leaders do a few years in prison, get out and then do what they were doing before but more quietly.
IronBird@lemmy.world 4 months ago
whats a good way to flush this people out btw…just ask questions you know the answer to, see if they lie?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Do you mean expose them as a liar?
Questions you know the answer to is certainly a viable method to determine who is a liar.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kind of like asking what murderers or drug dealers do…
Different people do it different ways, but lots of high profile cult leaders are in jail, you can actually find out on an individual basis, but if you average them all up, you get no valuable data
Maeve@kbin.earth 4 months ago
They usually convert a few or a bunch, specifically tailoring their message, like NOI and WAB.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
They probably won’t repent and will simply continue to use bullshit rhetoric for when they get out of jail. I recall watching a documentary about one of these cults, don’t remember the name, but it got some pretty rich women in it and the cult leader was abusing all of them.
After being jailed and everything being exposed, some people who were into it still wanted to defend the leader