History Main / PariahPrisoner

** Inverted by [[spoiler:Saul himself. When he's finally arrested for his part in Heisenberg's crime syndicate at the end of the series, he ends up sentenced to over 80 years in what would normally be a HellholePrison filled with some of the worst scum imaginable. However, it ends up not being that bad for him, since all of the prisoners there practically worship him. After all, he spent his entire career as an AmoralAttorney keeping guys like them ''out'' of prison. The worst thing he can say about it is that he's working in the kitchen there, essentially doing the exact same thing he did in his boring life as Gene the Cinnabon Manager.]]

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoilingRockPart1 "The Boiling Rock, Part 1"]]. The warden tells Zuko that the prisoners would tear him to shreds if they found out he's the traitor Prince Zuko.

* {{Double Subverted|Trope}} in the episode "Peternormal Activity" of WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy. After Peter and the guys accidently killed an old war veteran, Joe talks Quagmire out of reporting it, telling him that they are going to prison for this and "you know what they do to cops in prison". It cuts to a ImagineSpot where a prison inmate asks a bored Joe several questions about the police like an excited, curious child ("when you were a cop, do they let you use the siren?") and then, right afterwards, this same inmate casually says that he and several others prisoners are going to kill Joe in the shower later.

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* [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double Subverted]] in the episode "Peternormal Activity" of WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy. After Peter and the guys accidently killed an old war veteran, Joe talks Quagmire out of reporting it, telling him that they are going to prison for this and "you know what they do to cops in prison". It cuts to a ImagineSpot where a prison inmate asks a bored Joe several questions about the police like an excited, curious child ("when you were a cop, do they let you use the siren?") and then, right afterwards, this same inmate casually says that he and several others prisoners are going to kill Joe in the shower later.

** Inverted by [[spoiler:Saul himself. When he's finally arrested for his part in Heisenberg's crime syndicate and sent to prison, all the dangerous, hardened criminals around him absolutely ''adore'' Saul and sing a chant in his honor. After all, he spent his entire career as an AmoralAttorney keeping guys like them ''out'' of prison. At the least, it's shown that prison life for him isn't all that different from his days at the Cinnabon.]]

* ''Short Eyes'' (1977), based on real life ex con Miguel Pinero's 1974 play of the same title's prison slang for child molester) in which Bruce Davison's character is accused of this while confined at Manhattan's Men's Detention.

** Inverted by [[spoiler:Saul himself. When he's finally arrested for his part in Heisenberg's crime syndicate and sent to prison, all the dangerous, hardened criminals around him absolutely ''adore'' Saul and sing a chant in his honor. After all, he spent his entire career as an AmoralAttorney keeping guys like them ''out'' of prison.]]

* Gamora of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' is this on The Kyln due to her being affiliated with and working for Thanos, which made her a lot of enemies. Indeed the first night there a group of prisoners plus Drax try to kill her and she survives only thanks to Peter.

* This is the fate of [[spoiler:Superintendent Pendrew]] in ''Videogame/SleepingDogs''. Wei is given evidence that confirms him as [[spoiler:the killer of [[TheDon Uncle Po]]]], meaning that he's not just going away as an [[spoiler:ex-cop]], but also [[spoiler:the man who killed one of the underworld's most-respected figures]].

-->-- ''[[http://www.vice.com/read/why-sex-offenders-are-getting-slaughtered-in-california-prisons-218 Why Are So Many Sex Offenders Getting Murdered in California's Prisons?]]'', '''Vice'''

* 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 [[PrisonRape is in turn raped himself]], [[LaserGuidedKarma in a sort of poetic justice]].

* James Eagan Holmes, the gunman who gained infamy for ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' shootings in Aurora, Colorado, became this as not only that the judge expressed ''absolutely zero sympathy'' towards the shooter for maiming if not slaughtering scores of people '''including children''' who were at the theatre for the premiere, declaring that Holmes may "never set foot in free society again" and giving Holmes a LongerThanLifeSentence,[[note]]3,318 years to be exact, though he'd obviously be dead or worse murdered in prison before he finishes it[[/note]] a fellow inmate named Mark "Slim" Daniels attempted to murder him ostensibly to avenge the deaths of Holmes's victims. Whether Slim's motivation for sending the ''Dark Knight'' spree shooter to hell is sincere or not is debatable though, as he might have done this merely for the notoriety.

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul''. Mike says that cops [[FateWorseThanDeath fear prison more than death]].

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* [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double Subverted]] in the episode "Peternormal Activity" of WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy. After Peter and the guys accidently killed an old war veteran, Joe talks Quagmire out reporting it out, telling him that they are going to prison for this and "you know what they do to cops in prison". It cuts to a ImagineSpot where a prison inmate asks a bored Joe several questions about the police like an excited, curious child ("when you were a cop, do they let you use the siren?") and then, right afterwards, this same inmate casually says that he and several others prisoners are going to kill Joe in the shower later.

-->'''Wei''': Yeah, I'm counting on it.

* Contrary to popular belief, [[PaedoHunt child molesters]], [[DirtyCop bad cops]] and [[TheInformant snitches]] are not the only prisoners targeted by inmates (or in some cases, by guards). (In this case, this is definitely '''not''' a case of EvenEvilHasStandards.)
** LGBT criminals suffer '''heavily''' in some prisons. This is due to the infamously homophobic sentiment shared among many guards and prisoners alike. they are seen as below even the worst of the child molesters, to the point where a common hoax circulated around the DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale trope was that the perpetrator in prisons was gay. In some years and areas, more LGBT people are killed by prisoners and guards than informants and child molesters.
** People with racially egalitarian ideas are seen by prisoners of many stripes as "traitors" to their own "race" (thus feeding into the extremely bigoted environments all too common in prisons) and are frequently the target of PrisonRape and/or lynchings. However, many activists willing to go into prison in a hope to further advance progress on social issues would often realize how ill-informed the decision was due to the extremely prejudiced environments in many prisons and would often either leave with no way of employment or income (causing them to be driven to the DespairEventHorizon, leading to [[RichesToRags homelessness]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist terrorism]] and [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], as not even their fellow activists are willing to attempt to prop up that victim's income after prison) or get killed in prison.
** And just about any person with intellectual beliefs, or have no incentive for violence are seen as "worse" than informants and child molesters, due to them being seen as complete "cowards" who are "defenseless". Despite the obvious disparity in deaths, informants, bad cops, and child molesters disproportionately make up most of the pariahs in fiction and news coverage.
* Many prison services have segregated units for vulnerable prisoners.
** These are not always intentionally made. When inmates have to be separated after a conflict, it's obvious that the aggressor cannot be put around other at-risk inmates, so he will probably end up around other dangerous inmates. Over time, this creates pockets of at-risk inmates that serve as unofficial "PC" units.
* It isn't just pedophiles:
** Inmates on Retained Jurisdiction, or "riders", are being given a probationary sentence by a judge and are not officially in the custody of a Department of Corrections. They are only slightly higher than child molesters in the prison hierarchy.
** Civil Commitments have been declared mentally incapable of living in society by a judge and have not been convicted of a crime. They are people who would have been in a state hospital in the '50s but are often held in prisons due to a lack of mental health facilities. Mental health offenders often require special attention, but Civil Commits are extreme cases.
* There are a few UrbanLegends around of EvenEvilHasStandards where prisoners murder newly arrived pedophiles.
* In female prisons, it's reportedly women who [[OffingTheOffspring kill their own children]] who are at the bottom of the prison food chain. People who murder children in general are considered only slightly "better" than child molesters.

* Russia [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/world/europe/29prisons.html?_r=0 has special prisons]] for high-ranking civil servants, such as policemen, judges, and taxmen. Such inmates tend to have a rather short life expectancy in normal prisons.
* Supposedly, rapists and pedophiles were despised by TheMafiya-run prison gangs in older times, and tended to end up as {{sex slave}}s while [[IronicHell locked up]]. In modern times, this "custom", most likely, is dead.
* In Nazi concentration camps, the prisoners most despised by other prisoners were [[ValuesDissonance the homosexuals]] and former Nazis that fell out of favor with Hitler's regime and got sent there.

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** When Brad Bellick is framed for murder and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, he has the bright idea to get a sentence at the same prison where he used to be the captain of the guard, thinking that his old status will grant him protection by his former colleagues. It backfires because the new hardline Warden is adamant about no privileges being accorded to anyone, so he quickly becomes a target for reprisals.

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[[caption-width-right:350:When ComicBook/TheJoker thinks [[EvenEvilHasStandards you're a horrible person]], you are not going to have a pleasant incarceration.]]

* ''Film/TheHunter'' (1980, Steve [=McQueen's=] last movie before his death that year) had LAPD character "Detective Spota" facing this unenviable fate because he stole and sold drugs from an evidence locker but instead commits suicide to avoid facing this.