History Main / PrisonRape

* In a ''Webcomic/VGCats'' [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=117 strip]] we have the creators of ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' going on trial because it is assumed that they were partaking in the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs use of illegal substances while making the game]]. Leo, the judge, is playing his game in excitement before realizing that the term 'roll a Katamari' can sound a ''lot'' like a slang term for doing drugs, which leads to this dialogue:

* [[KarmicRape An extra (or ironic) punishment for the particularly depraved.]] Even "[[DesignatedHero good]]" characters may [[ComedicSociopathy gloat at the thought of]] [[KickTheSonOfABitch villains receiving their comeuppance]] in this way, [[LaserGuidedKarma especially if said villains were rapists themselves]]. A PariahPrisoner (such as a sexual offender, a snitch, or an ex-cop) might be the victim of a prison rape. [[note]]This is sadly part of the reason why [[DirtyCop many prison guards]] turn a blind eye to complaints of prison rape.[[/note]]

* Losing to a Prison Guard in ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'' while their [[GagPenis “stinger”]] is intact will have this trope done in [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil ''very'' non-humorous manner]], leading to a scene where it is all but stated that the protagonist gets raped. [[spoiler: You end up waking up suffering anal bleeding and with [[AnArmAndALeg both legs missing]], stuffed in a pile of dead bodies afterward]].
** Recruiting [[TheSneakyGuy Cahara]] for the first time has him found in a locked prison cell, with his dialogue implying he suffered this fate from a guard.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "Star Trek", Roger references this, telling Steve:
-->Sorry, pal. You're going to jail, where they're gonna take your cherry... [[BaitAndSwitch Jell-O away]]...in the lunch line...[[DoubleSubversion after you're raped]]...in the shower.

** Implied in the episode "The Boiling Rock", when Sokka, disguised as a guard, sneaks into his girlfriend Suki's cell and makes kissy faces at her... ''before'' removing his disguise. A female prison guard who stumbles upon [[spoiler:Zuko]] keeping guard also suspects that this is happening in Suki's cell and, to her credit, [[EvenEvilHasStandards isn't having any of it]]. Appropriately, Suki knocks him on his butt. In the same episode, the warden implies that this could happen to Zuko if the other prisoners find out his true identity as well.

** Implied in the episode "The Boiling Rock", when Sokka, disguised as a guard, sneaks into his girlfriend Suki's cell and makes kissy faces at her... ''before'' removing his disguise. Appropriately, Suki knocks him on his butt. In the same episode, the warden implies that this could happen to Zuko if the other prisoners find out his true identity as well.

* ''Literature/LetsStartAnInnOnTheDungeonIsland'' has a rare gender-inverted example that are not PlayedForLaughs where soldiers of an all-female Imperial army garrison tried to rape the male protagonist, Shirou Sanada in the dungeon after capturing him when he first arrived in the new world. Fortunately, they were interrupted by their senior officer who wants the offending soldiers to be stationed somewhere else, but it's clear that Shirou still bore the trauma from the experience even many chapters later.

* Another female example with Hope Shlottman in ''Series/JessicaJones'', where Hope is implied to be her cellmate’s [[SexSlave sex slave]].

** A more sensitive take comes in the episode "Undercover", in which Olivia [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin goes undercover]] in a women's prison to find and expose a guard who's been raping inmates. He's eventually taken down, though not before he [[NearRapeExperience tries to rape Olivia]] while she's posing as a prisoner.

* ''Webcomic/SuperRivals'': Avoided at the start of the comic when Latex Scorpion fights off sexual extorision from two female prisoners while serving a sentance in [[ExtranormalPrison the Moustrap]]. During the scuffle however she accidentally breaks one of their PowerNullifier's, fortunately Awesome Girl [[BigDamnHeroes arrives]] to break up the altercation before things can get more violent.

* ''Webcomic/SuperRivals'': Avoided at the start of the comic, Latex Scorpion fights off sexual extorision from two female prisoners while serving a sentance in [[ExtranormalPrison the Moustrap]], but accidentally breaks the PowerNullifier of one of them. Fortunately Awesome Girl [[BigDamnHeroes arrives]] to break up the altercation before things can get especially violent.

* ''Webcomic/SuperRivals: Avoided at the start of the comic, Latex Scorpion fights off sexual extorision from two female prisoners while serving a sentance in [[ExtranormalPrison the Moustrap]], but accidentally breaks the PowerNullifier of one of them. Fortunately Awesome Girl [[BigDamnHeroes arrives]] to break up the altercation before things can get especially violent.

* ''Film/{{Sleepers}}''. The entire movie is hinged on this, made even more terrible by the fact that the brutalized parties are underage boys and the perpetrators are guards. At juvenile prison (apparently TruthInTelevision -- see the bottom of the page).

'''Doug:''': You're a cute little guy. They're gonna be lovin' you from dawn until dusk, eh?\\

* The Music/RodneyCarrington doo-wop number "Prison Bitch" is another one played for BlackComedy.

* ''Radio/TheBobAndTomShow'' song "Prison Bitch", which is rendered hideously funny by its spot-on mimicry of a doo-wop love ballad -- if you've heard another such song, ever, in your life, you can perfectly predict the melody -- [[LyricalDissonance contrasted with the horrid content of the lyrics]]: "You're not like all the others, too bad they had to die!"

[[caption-width-right:300:[[IronicEcho "Love is in the air! Can't you just smell it?"]]]]

* A standard element to make horror stories more horrific yet. In Creator/StephenKing's novella ''Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,'' the narrator muses over the topic of prison gangrape, admitting that it had happened to him, observing that it happens to the story's protagonist Andy Dufresne, and making it sound like it happens to nearly everyone in Shawshank prison.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Porridge}}'', where, while sexual tensions and possible assaults are touched upon, they are not dwelt upon, and the main homosexual character, Lukewarm, is a harmless PetHomosexual. PrisonRape is much rarer in the UK penal system -- that's not to say it doesn't happen, but there's a lot less of it about. This is at least partially because the gang culture in UK prisons is less pronounced.

* ''Series/WithoutATrace''. The agents occasionally like to taunt suspects with the possibility of this happening to them. In one episode, Jack Malone essentially threatens a crippled boy with being sent to prison and resultant PrisonRape unless he tells him where he's put the missing person of the week.

* A recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times criticizing the use of BlackComedyRape (particularly PrisonRape) mentioned a board game called ''Don't Drop the Soap!'' in which the players are prisoners, and the one who bends over to pick up dropped soap is at risk of getting raped.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[IronicEcho Love is in the air! Can't you just smell it?]]]]