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Rape is an ongoing reality in prisons and jails throughout the United
States. The latest studies indicate that it affects an estimated
20% of prisoners, usually the youngest, least violent and most
redeemable of our nation's 2 million incarcerated individuals. Whether
it manifests itself as coerced sex in exchange for protection, repeated
gang-rapes or a traumatic one night experience in county lock-up,
prison rape is not a joke, but a devastating reality.
But the rape of an estimated 150,000 men per year remains the punch
line of many a comedians' joke, a taboo topic to be laughed at nervously.
As such it is largely misunderstood and untreated, an added punishment
with unknown consequences for the victim and those he comes in contact
with when released to the outside world.
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