page_title: Prison rape
hierarchical_section_title: Prison rape
caption_attribution_description: English: Chart I developed from data contained in a peer reviewed journal article, "The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions" by Lara Stemple, JD, and Ilan H. Meyer, PhD, which appeared in June 2014, Vol 104, No. 6 of the American Journal of Public Health Other information From article, "The Sexual Victimization of Men in America: New Data Challenge Old Assumptions" by Lara Stemple, JD, and Ilan H. Meyer,
context_page_description: Prison rape or jail rape is rape occurring in prison. The phrase has come into common usage to refer to rape of inmates by other inmates, and less commonly to the rape of inmates by staff, and even less commonly rape of staff by inmates.
  The overwhelming majority of cases are men who are raped by other men.
  In some jurisdictions, sexual contact with inmates by prison staff is illegal regardless of consent.
  The well-known teardrop tattoo sometimes signifies that the wearer was raped while incarcerated and tattooed with a teardrop under the eye by the rapist, as a way of “marking” an inmate as the property of another person and humiliating the inmate while in prison, as a tattoo on the face cannot be covered up or hidden.
context_section_description: Prison rape or jail rape is rape occurring in prison. The phrase has come into common usage to refer to rape of inmates by other inmates, and less commonly to the rape of inmates by staff, and even less commonly rape of staff by inmates.
  The overwhelming majority of cases are men who are raped by other men.
  In some jurisdictions, sexual contact with inmates by prison staff is illegal regardless of consent.
  The well-known teardrop tattoo sometimes signifies that the wearer was raped while incarcerated and tattooed with a teardrop under the eye by the rapist, as a way of “marking” an inmate as the property of another person and humiliating the inmate while in prison, as a tattoo on the face cannot be covered up or hidden.
caption: Looking across different US government survey sources, for a given year male adult and youth inmates are estimated to suffer several times more incidents of sexual victimizations than incarcerated females. Male and female inmates are not included in most national surveys of sexual victimization.[1][2]
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