A convicted rapist housed on McNeil Island was living the, um, sort-of-good-considering-he-was-still-in-prison life, Goodfellas-style, says the PI.com:

By the time the FBI caught on to his operation, Lawrence Williams was living well.

At least, well for a convicted rapist locked up indefinitely in a state center for violent sexual predators.

Williams had a new wife and pen pals receptive to his manipulations. He had state employees smuggling him crack cocaine and heroin, and making him pornographic videos. One -- a nurse hired to care for the men held at the McNeil Island facility -- even acted as his "paramour," having sexual relations with him inside the state-run Special Commitment Center

Federal authorities caught wind of Williams' operation in July 2008, receiving a tip that the nurse was smuggling drugs into the facility. In the days that followed, the FBI arrested a guard at the facility and a woman Williams had met through a telephone chat service.

In the months since, federal prosecutors brought charges and convicted Williams and two of his conspirators. At the same time, they've pursued a string of child pornography prosecutions against men housed at the Department of Social and Health Services-run center where he was held.