But there are victims, plenty of them, among the 2 million behind bars in this incarceration-obsessed nation, says Human Rights Watch in a report issued last week. Prisoners are targeted for sexual exploitation the moment they enter prison, marked as candidates for abuse if they are young, handsome, shy, intellectual, feminine and, especially, fearful. Rape is not an inevitable consequence of prison life, but it is a predictable one, says the report. And state authorities do little to prevent or punish it. You see, I am such a prisoner.
Nobody seems to care.
It is very depressing. Maybe when I am dead they will say I should have been placed into protective custody. He introduced himself as a bisexual. He became more difficult to deal with and started to threaten me. Finally one day he attacked me.