Prison Rape - Television Tropes & Idioms

This has become almost a Dead Horse Trope in Hellblazer:
- During the story about the Devil's Confession, there is reference to a young hippie being "buggered eleven times on his first night inside", which prompted his attempted suicide.
- During the Son of Man Story Arc, John Constantine and Chaz Chandler are pursued by a huge demon called a "fuckpig", supposedly the act of rape given form. John comments that, as the creature is sexually aggressive, massively endowed and black in colour (coal-black, as it happens), this experience could represent prison-rape anxiety. Even though the story was set in London and it's usually U.S. prisons that are depicted as controlled by violent black gangs. He's pretty obviously joking, anyway, as he follows up the comment with "I said it was very Freudian, Chas. I dind't say it actually meant anything."
- In the story arc Hard Time, John is incarcerated in an Oz-like prison in the Deep South where he is sexually menaced by a scary black man named Traylor. John later magically causes a rioting mob of prisoners to see Traylor as a Hot Black Chick and gang-bang him (John's a Nineties Anti Hero; he doesn't have to be nice).
The villain of The Authority's "Earth Inferno" story arc is an evil magician who has spent decades in prison, and rather banally says he has been raped by almost every guard in the prison. Once he escapes, he travels back in time and molests one of the heroes as a teenager as part of his battle strategy.
When Spider-Man ally Joe "Robbie" Roberston gets jailed by the machinations of Tombstone, the hulking inmate Bruiser decides the Robbie will become his "very close friend". In an immediate backpedal/Authors Saving Throw, it's quickly revealed/retconned that Bruiser has only platonic friendship in mind since Robbie reminds him of his brother, along with hasty denials in the letter column. But that's not what was VERY clearly implied in the original scene.
- Spidey villain, third rank villain mind, Kangaroo was being pestered by Tombstone in prison. Kangaroo set it up so that Tombstone got stuck in a wall chasing him. With three big burly inmates show up and ... yeah.
The Punisher had a Christmas Special backup where the perp he's chasing has vowed not to go back to prison due his prior experiences there. Since the Punisher has promised not to kill on Christmas (that year), he drugs the guy and turns him over to the cops, saying "Learn to sleep with one eye open". The Punisher does this while dressed as Sants Claus, just to make it even more disturbing.
- In The Punisher MAX series, this nearly happens to O'Brien after she is sent back to prison, but she fights off her attackers repeatedly. It is eventually revealed that she actually was raped repeatedly after a botched CIA mission to Afghanistan that ended with her being captured by the Taliban.
Gina getexperiences the rare Distaff Counterpart in Gold Digger, complete with soap-dropping. She remembers not to bend over to pick it up, but kneeling in a women's prison isn't much better.

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An anti-drug PSA in the early 90s featured a first-person viewpoint of the arrested drug user, ending with a prison inmate who simply blows a kiss to his new cellmate. (You Tube links welcome.)
- A similar one regarding illegal guns, IIRC: "The worse part of being convicted on a firearms offence is you don't get to keep the gun with you when you meet your new cellmate."
- There's also this print ad◊ from the Montana Meth Project, in 2009.
Years ago, there was a 7-Up ad where the guy was making his pitch in a prison. He drops a can at one point and says 'I'm not picking that up.' And 'That's enough being friends' as the cameraman pulls away while a bearded prisoner puts an arm around him.

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Many fans of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang assume main character Harry Lockhart was raped in prison. In fic it is sometimes this that keeps Harry/Perry from happening.
A Kung Fu Panda Fan Fic has this happen to Tai Lung while he was in Chorh-Gom. Considering Vachir was voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan, with all that implies, it was a rather disappointing development. The fact this implies homosexuality on the part of the rapists, and that it isn't clear which part (the act, or their orientation) is being disapproved of by the other characters, mars an otherwise excellent story. (It even includes Rape As Drama for an OC, in one of the rare 10% this editor has ever found where it was done well—although it does border on a Hurt Comfort Fic Woobie—mostly because it's a sadly accurate portrayal of how women in China were treated at that time.)
- Interestingly (and reassuringly) enough, and as proof that authors who do this sort of thing are indeed often completely unaware of the Unfortunate Implications, when this editor later pointed out the apparent prejudice against homosexuality in her fic, the author reacted with horror, apologized profusely, and through editing (and a sequel fic) made it clear it was rape being disapproved of, not homosexuality. (As well she might, since she is also the author of quite a few Slash Fics, it seems...)
In Jak II, it's assumed that Erol raped Jak during the two year Time Skip in the opening cutscene to the point of being Fanon. As though two years of torture and experimentation made explicit in the video game itself wasn't enough?
Becoming more common, especially in the output of the Kink Meme, for Star Trek XI . Sometimes played for kink, sometimes played for serious drama. There's a handful that have it happening to resident Cutie Chekov, generally by Nero and company.

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Similarly, the Where Are They Now Epilogue in Mallrats has the Jerk Jock, who liked to "screw girls in a very uncomfortable place", have the same thing happen to him.
- The back of a Volkswagen?
Office Space (Quoted Above) famously used this as the protagonists' primary motivation to hide their crime.
- No longer quoted above. The place they'd rather stay out of is "federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison".
In The Rock, Sean Connery's character jokes that fighting the rogue soldier on Alcatraz is better than his regular day "reading philosophy and avoiding gangrape in the washroom."
- Though this is apparently less of a problem, in recent times. "I musht be looshing my shex appeal."
This actually happens to Norm MacDonald's character (the main character) in Dirty Work. After a short scene of him discussing what happens to guys in prison with his friend, they show him walk from off screen, buttoning his pants, and talking about how disgusting and rude his fellow inmates are.
Mitch: You fellas have a lot of growing up to do, I'll tell you that. Ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. Can you believe these characters? Way out of line. Way out of line. Have a good mind to go to the warden about this. You know what hurts the most is the... the lack of respect. You know? That's what hurts the most. Except for the... Except for the other thing. That hurts the most. But the lack of respect hurts the second most.
Subverted in Let's Go to Prison, where Scary Black Man Barry actually woos Nelson with toilet-made Merlot and a romantic enviroment in his cell. They eventually become life partners.
The Dragon in the film Road House taunts Dalton during their big fight by revealing to him that "I used to fuck guys like you in prison!" Then Dalton rips his throat out.
This is the most memorable plot point in the 1978 movie Midnight Express, which is about an American who tries to smuggle drugs out of Turkey and winds up in a truly brutal prison. The horrors of American "kids" being brutalized in foreign prisons in various ways became a common trope in news stories for decades after this movie came out. The trope was actually spoofed in Airplane!, where square airliner pilot Peter Graves turns out to be a homosexual pedophile, asking a young boy, "Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?", "Do you like movies about gladiators?" and, finally, "Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" Ironically, American prisons have developed such a reputation for brutality over the years that foreign travelers are warned about them. And so the circle of life continues.
The Steven Seagal movie Fire Down Below ends with Seagal disabling the main bad guy with one shot instead of killing him because he wants the bad guy to meet the "new friend" who is going to share his cell in prison. Given Seagal's general description of the "new friend" in question, one can make a pretty good guess about what's in store for the villain once he arrives...
- He pretty much says the same thing in Hard to Kill. But then no one ever accused Steven Seagal movies of an overabundance of originality.
American History X has a truly ironic and distressing part focusing on this.
- Ed Norton's character in 25th Hour is so worried about this that he spends the movie trying to convince his best friend to beat his face before he goes to prison. He hopes that arriving looking dangerous will save him.
The Butterfly Effect features a brutal prison rape scene involving Ashton Kutcher's character.
A little Joey Lawrence movie called Tequila Body Shots gives this as the consequence of landing in Mexican prison. Fortunately, or unfortunately if you prefer, Joey Lawrence does not end up in Mexican prison. Joey's love interest's psycho ex-boyfriend, however...
Happens in Scum, which takes place in a borstal (British version of juvenile hall.)
In There's Something About Mary, Ted (Ben Stiller) was falsely accused of murder (which was actually done by an escaped mental patient). Before he was released, we see a large inmate lying next to Ted in bed, which implied that he was raped.
Referenced in Reservoir Dogs, when Nice Guy Eddie described a white inmate, who upon being released from prison, was talking like a black man because "all that black semen been shooting up his butt, backed up into his brain and coming out of his mouth."
In a Rape As Comedy example, one of the Fletch movies sees the title character in a prison cell with a big guy whose name, when Fletch asks, is apparently "Ben Dover".
In The Ten, the story for "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" is a Rape As Comedy / Rape Is Love take on this.
In Puff, Puff, Pass,one of the protagonist keeps being shocked that everyone else but him takes it for granted that Andy Dufresne was raped off-screen in Shawshank Redemption.
The Made For TV Movie The Rape of Richard Beck about the eponymous police officer who doesn't have a whole lot of sympathy for female rape victims until an escaped prisoner who overpowers him does something, and, well, you can guess what happens from the title of the movie. A bit of Rape As Comedy occurs when a rape counselor comes to see him, who, of course, is a woman...
In the Where Are They Now Epilogue for Animal House, Greg Marmalade became a White House Aide for President Nixon, who was sent to prison after Nixon's resignation, and was raped there.
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. This troper had trouble sleeping after watching it.
Referenced in the Joe Pesci classic, My Cousin Vinny in the scene when the accused first meet their new lawyer. No rape actually occurs, but they clearly enjoy keeping the joke alive.
One of many reasons why Richard and Justin (particularly Justin) don't want to get caught in Murder By Numbers. Particularly disturbing when the twist ending does implicitly result in Justin going to jail, alone and without his more domineering best friend there for support. Fridge Logic renders this even more unpleasant, as Justin's actor is the baby-faced and somewhat short Michael Pitt.
- The plot of Jailbait centers in Justin's actor, Michael Pitt, getting raped in prison by his cellmate.
American Me has at least two scenes portraying prison rape, including an especially disturbing one where the main character keeps flashing back to his rape while having consensual intercourse with his girlfriend and turns violent.
The following exchange from Inside Man:
Dalton Russell: A week from now I'll be sucking on pinacoladas in a hot tub with six girls named Jennifer and Tina.
Det. Keith Frazier: A week from now you're going to be in a prison shower with two guys named Jack and Jose, and that thing you're sucking on? It's not a pina colada.
Murphy's Law (1986). Charles Bronson starts a fight with the female car thief he's handcuffed to by implying she'll enjoy her upcoming prison sentence. "The first time the dykes will have to hold you down, but soon you'll get to like it."
The Siege. When the FBI protagonist played by Denzel Washington arrests the female CIA agent (Annette Benning) he half-jokingly threatens her with Rikers Island and the dykes there if she doesn't co-operate. Annette just licks her lips and goes "Mmmmmmmm."

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The Pope of Greenwich Village; Faced with prison, the character Paulie complains "I ain't a big, tough guy. I go to jail and some big, militant nigger's gonna grab me in the showers and stuff it up my ass." (Paulie's choice of words, not ours!)
The Illuminatus! trilogy. The appearance of Harry Coin is greeted with "It's safe to assume that anyone you meet in prison is a homosexual" and sure enough, Harry wants to bugger his new cellmate before they've even been introduced. Of course, like much of the books, this whole scene is subverted, double-subverted, and triple-subverted not long after.
A standard element to make horror stories more horrific yet. In Stephen King'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.
A particularly nasty version of prison rape plays a significant part in the brilliant and repulsive short story "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes," by Douglas Clegg.
In the Dale Brown novel Storming Heaven the male terrorist villain Henri Cazaux was arrested by U.S. soldiers on a base in Belgium as a teenager and repeatedly raped by them over two days. Needless to say, this provides him with plenty of motivation to hate the United States and also decide he will never be caught alive.
The most horrifying instance of rape in the Outlander series (occurring in the first book, nonetheless, set in the mid-18th century) takes place in prison but is not precisely prison rape, more of a version of The Scarpia Ultimatum where both parties are male. Claire, the female love interest (from the 1940s — it's a long story) is... about as disturbed as one would expect, as the rape comes at the hands of a particularly sadistic villain. The same villain is implied to have been doing so for some time now to his other captives, at least one of whom commits suicide after.
A Clockwork Orange has a few references to this— the teenage Villain Protagonist Alex makes offhand mentions to several cellmates in prison early on fighting over who gets to have him, which probably wouldn't have ended well. Later, Alex leads the fatal attack on a new sexually abusive cellmate.
In the earlier chapters of A Prisoner of Birth, set in, well, prison, gang rape is referenced as the usual fate for gay prisoners... usually followed by being ripped limb from limb. One gay character we meet is only spared from this because good barbers are difficult to come by. And one of the guys the main character gets his revenge on for falsely incriminating him— a slightly Camp Gay soap opera actor— implicitly has prison rape to look forward to as part of his karmic comeuppance.
Used by Mercedes Lackey in one of her Burning Wheel titles, where the stepfather had spent years abusing his stepdaughter, giving her multiple personality syndrome as a defense mechanism. Once the elves caught him, he was placed in an extra-dimensional space, with something large which began using the same lines he'd used, just before the scene cut-away.
- Considering that the book clearly established his own abusive childhood (while mentioning that it didn't excuse his behavior), the incident didn't sit well with this troper. Yes, they said he'd be set free when he 'understood' his wrong, but still...

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Oz. Many instances, realistically portrayed and very disturbing.
- Rather perversely, many of the rapes perpetrated on this show are said to be against cast and crew that show up late to work.
In one episode of Two And A Half Men Berta (the family's housekeeper) brings Prudence, her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, to Charlie's house so she can keep an eye on her while she works. At one point, Prudence flirts with Charlie but Charlie, obviously fearing this trope, immediately backs off:
Charlie: I'm sorry Prudence. I mean you're very nice and pretty, but in prison, so am I.
The Young Ones:
Rick: Mike! You bastard! I can't go to prison! I'm too pretty! I'll be raped!
Averted in 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 Pet Homosexual.
- Prison Rape 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. At least partially because the gang culture in UK prisons is less pronounced.
Famously referenced in an episode of Wiseguy.
In the third season of Arrested Development, George Bluth complains about being under house arrest with his wife (after having spent most of the first two seasons incarcerated)
In prison I just had to lie there and take it. Here, I have to lie there and give it."
- In the same episode, George gives a speech to troubled youth about life in prison in order to scare them straight (i.e. off of drugs or gangs or whatever), but ends up describing prison rape to a group of gay youth who are expecting to be scared straight (i.e. into becoming heterosexuals). Needless to say, they are excited by the prospect of sweaty groping in the dark by buff men.
- It's also made fun of when Michael visits his father in prison during a previous season:
  George Sr.: I haven't had sex in a month.
  Michael:You know, you've been here two months.
  (Pause)
  George Sr.: It's hard to gauge time.
  Michael: Yeah. I'll bet.
- In one first season episode, George Michael is revealed to have watched an episode of Oz as a small child, and is terrified of visiting his grandfather in prison as a result.
The penultimate episode in Series 2 of Life On Mars has DCI Gene Hunt, now a murder suspect, complain to Sam Tyler, his DI, "You're not the one who's going to have to knit himself a new arsehole after 25 years of aggressive male affection in prison showers!"
Max And Paddy's Road to Nowhere had the pair going to prison and Paddy constantly worried about getting "bummed" while saying that Max has nothing to worry about. Despite Paddy's previous... encounter during an earlier episode, nothing of the sort happens, but in their attempts to seem like tough guys to make people keep their hands off them they attack the flamboyant Pepe, "girlfriend" of Raymond the Bastard who essentially owns that wing of the prison. It is largely implied that if Max and Paddy do not agree to Raymond's terms, rape shall be their punishment. Luckily the pair are bailed out before it comes to that.
In an episode of Without A Trace, Jack Malone essentially threatens a crippled boy with being sent to prison and resultant Prison Rape unless he tells him where he's put the missing person of the week.
In Red Dwarf, the cast is sent to prison, largely because of the backstabbing of Rimmer. In the first non-flashback set in the prison, Lister dumps a vial of the "sexual magnetism virus" on Rimmer, and the episode ends as all the inmates start groping him.
- At the start of the Back In the Red saga, Rimmer shows his Genre Savvy credentials on his re-introduction.
Lister: (ref. to his sentence) Two years without sex...
Rimmer: You hope.
Veronica Mars is truly all over the place with rape; one of the running gags in the first season, when one of the Arcs is Veronica trying to find out who raped her, is mocking someone who's heading to adult prison with a pronouncement of "Community soap."
A famous scene from Firefly involves a corrupt Alliance cop intimidating one of Mal's friends into betraying him using graphic threats of prison rape.
This happens to Chato in the NBC miniseries Kingpin. Unusually, he's actually raped by the guards.
An episode of Law And Order: Special Victims Unit entitled "Fallacy" deals with a pre-operative transgender fighting not to be sent to prison because she fears the men there will rape her. She's sent to jail and ends up in critical care by the end of the episode, having been brutally gang raped by the other inmates.
- In the generally so-bad-it's-good "Wildlife" episode, Stabler and Fin intimidate a rapper named "Gots Money" by rolling a pair of dice, implying that if he goes to prison his cellmate will do the same and then rape him a number of times corresponding to the dice roll.
  - Stabler: "Looky here! I 'gots' an eleven!"
- A different episode of Law And Order involved a kid who received prison for some incredibly minor crime, but was so traumatized by the repeated gang rapes that he came out a killer. Like the description above, when McCoy goes to interview the Aryan Brotherhood lifers that abused him, they refer to the victim as "she."
Supernatural only alluded to it in Folsom Prison Blues - Dean gets a taunt when they arrive, he makes a joke and acts like it was directed at Sam.
Shown in the British series The Governor. Like Oz, it is realistically portrayed and very disturbing.
In Prison Break this is what happens to Tweener. Captain Bellick threatens to rape him if he doesn't snitch on Michael. Tweener's snitching proves fruitless, so Bellick puts him in a cell with the sex criminal Avocado who immediately rapes him.
- Also, the teenage boy who T-Bag received as a 'gift' from his Aryan brothers. T-Bag raped the boy repeatedly until he committed suicide.
- It's implied that Bellick is raped in his first day in a Panamanian prison. Karma is a bitch.
Nip/Tuck managed to take the jackpot without even showing anything. All it took was one word - "anal retread". That's the type of operation a former inmate blackmails a surgeon into performing on him for free. The patient claims what happened to him wasn't gay – it was about surrendering. During the operation, the surgeon doesn't forget to turn on "How Deep Is Your Love" and mention how loose his patient's anus is.
Rare female example on The X Files, where Mulder is trying to convince Scully to stick with his story that a pizza delivery boy he stabbed with a broken chair leg was a vampire and she might be tried as a co-defendant. "Prison, Scully. Your cellmate's nickname is gonna be Large Marge. She's gonna read a lotta Gertrude Stein..." This is surprising only because of Mulder's general affection for and respect of Scully, given that in José Chung's "From Outer Space" Mulder explicitly threatens a seemingly-uncooperative rape suspect with rape in prison.
Mentioned in the Canadian comedy show Just For Laughs, in a sketch about Canadian-American relations:

"We're bigger, and we're on top. If we were in prison, they'd be our bitch!"

Alluded to in an episode of Pushing Daisies in which Ned is arrested on suspicion of murder.

Emerson: This might be a sweeping generalization but I don't think an attractive man who bakes pies for a living should spend any amount of time in prison

In an episode of Friends, Phoebe quells an argument between Rachel and Monica by grabbing their ears and forcing them both to their knees. She then comments that if they were in prison, Monica and Rachel would be her bitches.
Mentioned several times in The Wire. At one point a young character freaks out, because he's heard that there's a gang war going on at Juvie and "guys are getting raped!"
A rare female example in Weeds, when an imprisoned Celia complains that her cellmate wants her to be her "special friend".
Battlestar Galactica. The crew of Pegasus gang-rape their Cylon prisoner Gina in an attempt to break her resistance to interrogation. The same thing nearly happens (does happen, in the extended version) to Athena until Helo and Tyrol intervene.
In one episode of Frasier, Niles declares that his bone structure is too fine for him to go to prison.

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On the "tasteless joke" front, the last track on The Offspring's Splinter album is "When You're In Prison", a guide to avoiding prison rape in the form of a '40s-style ballad. Complete with cheerful chorus of female voices at the end.
Similarly, the song "Date Rape" by Sublime tells a story of a man who rapes a girl he meets in a bar, goes to jail, and is in turn raped himself, in a sort of poetic justice.
A radio station in this troper's area has been known to play a doo-wop ballad called "Prison Bitch", which is rendered hideously funny by its spot-on mimicry of the style — if you've heard another such song, ever, in your life, you can perfectly predict the melody — contrasted with the horrid content: "You're not like all the others, too bad they had to die!"
- It's from the Bob and Tom Show, and it's one of their favorite songs to perform live.
  - Tom also has an annoying habit (among many) of working a prison sodomy crack into nearly every crime news story.
My Chemical Romance have a song called "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison". It's pretty self-explanatory.
- Don't buy the version with the screaming at the end. It's... understandably creepy.
- Apparently the title is a reference to the aforementioned 25th Hour.
Bowling For Soup's video of "The Bitch Song" involves the band being sent to prison, with all that that and the song title implies (the song itself, however, is about the singer's girlfriend).
In the song "I Won't be Home for Christmas" the narrator is sent to prison and molested if not outright raped.
Megadeth's 1992 song "Captive Honour" tells the story of an arrogant protagonist who is sent to prison and finds out the ~~hard~~...finds out for himself that he's not as tough as he thought he was.

"Inside the big house his nightmare unfolds, before he got there, his manpussy was sold, black blanket welcome, this tough guy's now a bitch, praying for death, it can't be worse than this."

Honestly, if Tool's Prison Sex were a snake, it'd have bit someone by now. Granted, the titular act is allegorical (with an even creepier music video), but c'mon...
Nirvana's "Rape Me". The singer in this case is playing a victim of everyday non-prison rape, but the "I'm not the only one" line is directed at her attacker; he'll get his when he gets to jail. Or maybe Hell.
Otis Lee Crenshaw, a musical comedian, begins one of his songs with the intro "Y'know, prison rape has always gotten kinda a bad name." (the song is called "He almost looks like you")
On the Frank Zappa album "Joe's Garage," the protagonist Joe is "plooked" in prison during the song "Keep it Greasey." "Dong Work for Yuda," the preceding song, sings of Joe's rapist's generous gifts in the genitals department, just so the audience knows how awful Joe's going to have it.

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

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A Scary Black Man (who else) and the titular Anti Hero of Edmond.
- Another David Mamet play also makes reference to it: Speed-the-Plow features a movie pitch made by one of the characters for a prison-set action film that involves the threat of this. Also by a Scary Black Man.

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Enzai, the OVA, features a disturbing amount of examples of this trope. Made worse by the fact that the main character is underage and has been sent to jail on the account of a crime he did not commit.
- The visual novel it's based upon makes the OAV look like a children's show.
Grand Theft Auto 4 protagonist Niko Bellic mentions during a conversation that while he did spend time in Eastern European prisons, the whole prison bitch thing is a specifically American feature of incarcerated life. Which... probably isn't entirely accurate, at least not in Russia. In fact, it might very well be universal, as it's pretty much Older Than anything you care to name. (This troper had to do research. Not fun.)
- Wasn't it an entire chapter in part II of The Gulag Archipelago?
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas also references this trope in regards to C.J.'s brother Sweet, who gets thrown in prison following Smoke and Ryder's betrayal:
Carl Johnson: [Toreno is calling C.J. on his cell phone] Toreno?
Mike Toreno: Carl, learn to fly.
Carl Johnson: I'm on it, man, I swear!
Mike Toreno: "I'm on it, man, I swear!" Same old broken record, Carl. But that's fine... because your brother's getting a new cellmate tonight. Horse Cock Harry. And I'm sending a present, little wedding present — a big tube of lube.
Carl Johnson: Shit, dude, okay! Okay! I swear, man, I'm gonna be the best pilot!
Mike Toreno: I'd love to hear you, Carl. I can't hear you. All I can hear is your brother's love cries as eight kilometers of cock find its way up his ass. "Aaooowww!" That's your brother, okay? No big problem.
Carl Johnson: Wait! Please, man!
Mike Toreno: That was my last motivational speech, understand? Am I being too spiritual for you, Carl?
Carl Johnson: OK, man, I get the message.
The would-have-been Gizmondo Killer App Colors, a Wide Open Sandbox GTA-clone, presented prison rape as an option after the player gets arrested: To get out, the player can pay anywhere between $20 000 and $7 000, or just let the fat, bearded inmate sodomize him so that you'll be sent to the infirmary where he can escape.
There are rumors that a GTA-style Judge Mathis game is in production where the player will get to experience the joy of prison rape. See http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694665/Judge-Mathis-Making-Game-Featuring-Prison-Rape.html

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In Umlaut House once displayed the reason Rick was paroled. Forcibly.
Not shown, but discussed in this and this Loserz strip.
In this strip of the Magic The Gathering webcomic UG Madness, Dominic ends up in jail and his cellmate makes him...play Yu-Gi-Oh. Which, to the characters of the comic, is probably just as bad as rape.
Kevin Lee of Sexy Losers in this strip. He is very gay and also a bit of a masochist so the other prisoners decide not to rape him after all.
Karishma in a female example in Something Positive. It's only implied, and that vaguely, but many still rejoiced in seeing her punished in any way.
Eight Bit Theater: Played for laughs in this episode
Questionable Content: Marten is too pretty to go to prison.

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Raimi's Crowning Moment Of Awesome in Broken Saints Chapter 19, Act 3: he threatens Complete Monster Mars with sending fake child pornography to the FBI from Mars' e-mail account, saying he'll smile at thinking of what the prison boys are gonna do to that scumbag...

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The Boondocks: Prison rape is something that haunts the imagination of at least one character, Tom Dubois. In a Flash Back Montage, Tom's entire uptight, upright, good citizen prosecuting attorney personality is shown to stem from a deep-seated phobia about being sent to prison and raped.
Subverted in one episode of Family Guy, when Peter is sent to jail for fraud, he says on his first day: "All those stories about dropping the soap are true!" He then goes on to say: "Y'know, it slips and slides everywhere, you just can't grab onto it!"
- Played for laughs in another episode, where Peter mentions that he's so happy Quagmire got his job as a pilot back that he doesn't even mind that he got raped in federal prison, where he was sent for hijacking a plane.
One odd variation is the occasional suggestion that a homosexual character would enjoy prison for this reason. For example, on one episode of The Simpsons, there is a comment about Smithers "taking quickly" to a Turkish prison, and at the end of the remake of The In-Laws, one of the heroes comments that the flamboyant villain is going to "love" prison.
- Another borderline example occurs when Marge goes to jail and Homer visits her on conjugal visit day. Homer is being very gentle and considerate, ready to do whatever will help Marge cope with being in jail. Her only response is to jump on him, knocking the trailer they're in onto its side. Then again, this may be a subversion, since Homer was probably happy to oblige...
One episode of Clone High had Gandhi being accidentally incarcerated. He was very nervous about prison rape, especially because the other inmates kept ominously referring to the shower. When they finally cornered him for his 'initiation', it was completely innocent, of the 'three cheers' variety. They then listened, sympathetically, as he discussed his grief over the death of Ponce de Leon. It was hilarious.
- When this is revealed, one inmate says "Damn, boy! What'd you think we were going to do? Make LOVE to you?" And then they all laugh, except for one guy who just keeps creepily staring at Gandhi...
A disturbingly creepy running gag in Powerpuff Girls is that villain Mojo Jojo is raped when he goes to prison by fellow inmates. The first example was the ending of Cootie Gras, where in a large inmate glares meaningfully at Mojo as Mojo displays a worried look, while the narrator significantly says "Love is in the air! Can't you just feel it?" A similar scene happens in Monkey See Doggy Two, only as Mojo is turned into a dog and sent to the pound, with another Dog. Most recently, the 10th anniversary/final episode special "Powerpuff Girls Rule!" had one last shout-out to this running gag, as a fellow prisoner embraces Mojo much to Mojo's dismay. Wow.
This was frequently implied to happen to the title character's father on the Canadian cartoon Kevin Spencer during his frequent trips to the slammer.
Despite its setting and Cast Full Of Gay, Superjail! doesn't invoke this as often as you'd think it would.
Not technically Prison Rape, but there is a scene in the episode of Rockos Modern Life where Rocko's red car is impounded...

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In the web-published novel series Shadow Of The Templar Mike makes this comment regarding Farraday being released from jail:
Mike: For one thing, I bet his asshole's hanging a little looser.
- Also referenced to by Simon when he tries to persuade Jeremy to hand back the Morning Star to him:
Simon: Probably you'll be fending off all the large sweaty men who want you to call them 'daddy.' Put it down! Now!
Jeff Dunham:
Peanut: You'd get your ass sent to jail! And trust me, you would not do good in jail.
Jeff: Why not?
Peanut(deep voice): C'mere, puppet boy. Make yer daddy talk.
A simple story about getting a functioning lightsaber in the mail somehow leads to promises of brutal vengeance: "I'm gonna make sure you guys get locked up in a *raping* jail!"
Featured in the disclaimer on certain kinds of NSFW original fiction on the 'net: Anyone acting out such scenarios in "real life" can look forward to many unproductive years getting it up the butt by a fellow convict in their local prison.

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The rather horrific story of Abner Louima, who was raped in jail by the NYPD.

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