How about the US Justice Department?
>"After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008"
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-13/politics/raise-the-crime-ra...
That doesn't mean the risk of becoming a victim of violence for the "people unlucky enough to be caught for petty crime" group goes up anymore than it would if they suddenly found themselves in equal contact with the "people caught up in violent crime" group outside of prison.
10% of prisoners are serving 10+ years making that “10%” risk each year rather scary. Actual lifetime risks of the median prisoner are hard to calculate, but may exceed 40%.
prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.
"Prevalence of sexual abuse" (undefined)..."prison rape".
I've been unable to find the DoJ report this is coming from to find their definition of abuse, but the 216,000 number is thrown around a lot in the press - but never with a traceable reference I can find (and details vary - sometimes 2008, 2011, sometimes "at least", etc.)
One other factor is that a large amount of the abuse is guards/staff abuse of inmates, so it isn't just "criminals in close association with criminals".
Prisoners joke about it, threaten it, but will not do it, for the one reason called DNA evidence. It would really suck to become a sex offender while you're in prison.
There is also another saying from prison - "If you don't say 'No', it ain't rape." Most guys who get into trouble (typically from debt), end up selling their ass.
I doubt it.
> Prisoners joke about it, threaten it, but will not do it, for the one reason called DNA evidence. It would really suck to become a sex offender while you're in prison.
Plenty of people in prison are already sex offenders, or are never getting out in any case (so that being required to register as a ex offender when they do is moot), so while that may dissuade some, it's clearly not going to be a universally applicable deterrent.
Of course, even where it applies, that's more of a reason to assure that a rape isn't reported and investigated, which can be done by means other than not committing it, such as being sure that the victim is sufficiently afraid of violent retaliation if a report occurs.
> There is also another saying from prison - "If you don't say 'No', it ain't rape."
That may be a saying in prison (and one which serves to discouraging reporting of rapes), but it's not an accurate statement about the law.
We are talking about people who don't respect the law.
> Of course, even where it applies, that's more of a reason to assure that a rape isn't reported and investigated, which can be done by means other than not committing it, such as being sure that the victim is sufficiently afraid of violent retaliation if a report occurs.
So by your logic, just because there aren't reports and investigations, it actually proves it is happening.
There are reports and investigations (the reports actually increasing rapidly; investigations and even moreso authorities validating the reports less so, but then the authorities are themselves the most rapidly increasing set of alleged perpetrators), but (just as in the non-prison world, though the multiplier is higher) there are more incidents reported in anonymous victimization surveys than are reported non-anonymously in ways which enable investigation, but also retaliation.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/07/25/prison-rape-al...
“Rape” is not a federal legal category, and in many state laws includes only nonconsensual penis-vagina intercourse. The common-use terms “prison rape” corresponds more closely to the category used here (which seems to mirror the way things are tracked in DoJ reports of sex crimes in the broader public, which justifies the comparison made to the overall total) than any other one would expect in an official report.
> “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition...
Which is why people who can afford it hire these consultants on advice how to avoid that fate. Just doing your time isn't a simple choice. You need to know how to. do that.