This is kind of my stance. Those wings are full of people who are violent, who hurt other people and who justify it to themselves when their victims are innocent, it's why they're there, so it's no great leap to understand they'd do it to each other, knowing the one they're attacking isn't innocent, all of them have likely committed awful crimes.
There is a hierarchy, where child abusers are the lowest, but maybe that's because they've been abusing those who can't fight back, and when faced with adults who are quite willing and capable to inflict on another adult, and probably have done, they're not equipped to deal with it - I think that's part of what makes them a target.
I don't think those who have done it are hero's standing up for the vulnerable, there may well be vulnerable people in their past that they've hurt, they're in prison for a reason. They'll use it as a defence, but I think it's an entirely predictable result of getting yourself locked up with people who are also violent.
And we're also expecting prison officers to step in and risk themselves to defend these people, although yes, we can expect that of a prison officer, it's a big ask, and that should be recognised.
The only way around that is far more staff in prisons and better accomodation that separates people - and in all honesty I think that especially in the current financial climate, we've got better things to spend that money on.
I don't think encouraging this sort of thing is right, but I'm not sorry it happened after the fact.