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* A dark, past trauma that blights the lives of ex-convicts.

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** 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 color (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 didn'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).

** 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 (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' ally Joe "Robbie" Robertson gets jailed by the machinations of Tombstone, the hulking inmate Bruiser decides that Robbie will become his "very close friend". In an immediate backpedal/AuthorsSavingThrow, it's quickly revealed/retconned that Bruiser has only platonic friendship in mind since Robbie [[Replacement Goldfish|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.

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* In the [[Where Are They Now]] ending of National Lampoon's ''[[Animal House]]'' it says that Greg Marmalade became a Nixon White House aide and was "raped in prison in 1974".

* Referenced in the [[Sandra Bullock]] movie ''[[~~Twenty Eight~~ Days (Film)|Twenty Eight Days]]'': Jasper reassures his girlfriend that rehab is a preferable alternative to prison because, "You never hear about anyone getting raped by a plunger in rehab."

* Referenced in the [[Sandra Bullock]] movie ''[[28 Days (Film)|Twenty Eight Days]]'': Jasper reassures his girlfriend that rehab is a preferable alternative to prison because, "You never hear about anyone getting raped by a plunger in rehab."

* Used way too hilariously in the third ''[[The Naked Gun (Film)|The Naked Gun]]'' movie. Drebin has infiltrated a prison, and a big scary prisoner throws a bar of soap in the shower and tells him to pick it up. Drebin does... but [[Crowning Moment of Funny|not before he's had metal underpants appear seemingly from nowhere]].

* Drives the plot of the prison drama ''Fortune And Mens Eyes''.

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* ''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 (TV)|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 (TV)|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 [[Double Standard Rape Male On Male|all the inmates start groping him]].

* In ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|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 [[Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)|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.

{{quote| '''Lister:''' (ref. to his sentence) Two years without sex...<br />

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* In an episode of ''[[Friends (TV)|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!"

** When Omar is {{spoiler|framed for a murder}} and briefly incarcerated in season four, he comes under immediate attack from most of the other inmates on the basis of having robbed many of them before, being homosexual, and having a five-figure bounty on his head. When one of them tries to stab him, he manages to disarm him and, before returning the favor, [[Take That Kiss|kisses his ear]] and tells him, "It's a shame we didn't have more time together; we could have made us a couple of babies." Apart from serving to terrify the man, this is possibly a call-back to season one, where Stinkum reports that when Bird jailed with Omar, he had a "whole stable of boys" at his beck and call.

** When Omar is {{spoiler|framed for a murder}} and briefly incarcerated in season four, he comes under immediate attack from most of the other inmates on the basis of having robbed many of them before, being homosexual, and having a five-figure bounty on his head. When one of them tries to stab him, he manages to disarm him and, before returning the favor, [["Take That!" Kiss|kisses his ear]] and tells him, "It's a shame we didn't have more time together; we could have made us a couple of babies." Apart from serving to terrify the man, this is possibly a call-back to season one, where Stinkum reports that when Bird jailed with Omar, he had a "whole stable of boys" at his beck and call.

* A rare female example in ''[[Weeds]]'', when an imprisoned Celia complains that her cellmate wants her to be her "special friend."

* ''[[~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. 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.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. 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 (TV)|Frasier]]'', Niles declares that his bone structure is too fine for him to go to prison.

** In another, upon finding out that the boy who bullied him as a child ("He used to call me "Shorts In The Shower" boy!") is in prison, Niles smugly sips his coffee and queries, "Well, who's wearing shorts in the shower now?"

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* ''[[Enzai (Visual Novel)|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 OVA look like a children's show.

* [[Near Rape Experience|Almost occurs]] in ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' during Vyse's second entry (i.e imprisonment) in the [[Stone Wall|Grand Fortress]]; Aika is harassed and about to be raped by the admiral [[The Casanova|Vigoro]]; thankfully Vyse and Gilder show up in time. The implications of rape were removed in the English localization of the game.

* [[Near-Rape Experience|Almost occurs]] in ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' during Vyse's second entry (i.e imprisonment) in the [[Stone Wall|Grand Fortress]]; Aika is harassed and about to be raped by the admiral [[The Casanova|Vigoro]]; thankfully Vyse and Gilder show up in time. The implications of rape were removed in the English localization of the game.

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' 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.

** Well, Russian cops (neither German, nor British...really anyone but Americans) don't generally mention to suspects casually that they will be, de facto, ''[[Moral Event Horizon|sold as sex slaves]]''.

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