US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.

[buriramboy]

1) Because of its prison system, the US is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.
According to the 2011 report from Department of Justice, nearly one in 10 prisoners report having been raped or sexually assaulted by other inmates, staff or both. According to a revised report from the US Department of Justice, there were 216,000 victims of rape in US prisons in 2008. That is roughly 600 a day or 25 every hour.

Those numbers are of victims, not instances, which would be much higher since many victims were reportedly assaulted multiple times throughout the year. Excluding prison rapes, there about 200,000 rapes per year in America, and roughly 91 percent of those victims are women. If these numbers are accurate, this means that America is the only country in the world where more men are raped than women.

Even if the number of unreported rapes outside of prison were substantially larger than most experts believe, the fact that many victims in prison tend to be raped repeatedly would indicate that rape against men is at least comparable to rape against women.

Kendell Spruce was one such inmate, sentenced to six years for forging a check for which he hoped to purchase crack cocaine. In a National Prison Rape Elimination Commission testimony, Spruce said:

“I was raped by at least 27 different inmates over a nine month period. I don’t have to tell you that it was the worst nine months of my life… [I] was sent into protective custody. But I wasn’t safe there either. They put all kinds of people in protective custody, including sexual predators. I was put in a cell with a rapist who had full-blown AIDS. Within two days, he forced me to give him oral sex and anally raped me.”

Spruce was diagnosed with “full blown AIDS” in 2002 and died three years later.

Five Stunning Facts About America's Prison System You Haven't Heard | Zero Hedge

[Bettyboo]

“I was raped by at least 27 different inmates over a nine month period.

I was put in a cell with a rapist who had full-blown AIDS. Within two days, he forced me to give him oral sex and anally raped me.

That is not good...

[mustafa goze]

Dreadfully entitled piece, imo.

[MANICHAEAN1]

I think the Saudi prisons would come a close second, mainly carried out by the guards.

[ShrewedPunter]

Hard to believe..

Most rapes/abuses don't even get reported

[MANICHAEAN1]

Well, that's not exactly difficult to understand.

[Latindancer]

I've been horrified by our prison systems for a long time. A large percentage of inmates actually have mental health issues which caused (in one way or another) to commit the crimes. And if they were marginal mental problems when they were committed, they soon become more serious.

[Kurgen]

So if you get banged up in the US you probably won't be going straight when you're out then.

[bsnub]

Until I see data from Pakistan I am sceptical about America holding the man rape title..

[BaitongBoy]

Where's Butters?...Did he leave for America?...

[pseudolus]

Kendell Spruce was one such inmate, sentenced to six years for forging a check

I am not surprised at all by the story of systematic male rape in prisons. However, I am stunned that for forging a cheque you can be put in jail for 6 years. That is ludicrous. Pay the cash back, community service, education, drug rehabilitation, job done. Even 30 days inside would be acceptable. But 6 years? How big was this cheque? A couple of billion? It's not as if the bank lost any money - they create it all the time. Just goes to show who really sets the laws.

Until I see data from Pakistan I am sceptical about America holding the man rape title..

Snubbles - I think they would be very low indeed. Rape implies no consent, and as most bacon sarnies are poofs, consent is readily given I would guess.

Where's Butters?...Did he leave for America?...

Buttering himself up all the way...

[Rainfall]

I am not surprised at all by the story of systematic male rape in prisons. However, I am stunned that for forging a cheque you can be put in jail for 6 years. That is ludicrous. Pay the cash back, community service, education, drug rehabilitation, job done. Even 30 days inside would be acceptable. But 6 years? How big was this cheque? A couple of billion? It's not as if the bank lost any money - they create it all the time. Just goes to show who really sets the laws.

You kidding? That's the U S A, where everything gets twisted and perverted, and every word becomes a lie. Meet their 13th amendment.

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."



See? Easy to maintain slavery.

[bobo746]

if you get banged up in the US

You get properly banged up.


One man trying to push two men up three mens arseholes.US jail time.

[pseudolus]

See? Easy to maintain slavery.

Very good point.

So anyway, 0.7% of the population of the USA is in Jail? (or, please, have I got the decimal place wrong)

Hells bells.

[Begbie]

See? Easy to maintain slavery.

Very good point.

So anyway, 0.7% of the population of the USA is in Jail? (or, please, have I got the decimal place wrong)

Hells bells.

That's at any one time. Include those who have served time and are now out and the the % of felons in the population must be pretty high.

[pseudolus]

See? Easy to maintain slavery.

Very good point.

So anyway, 0.7% of the population of the USA is in Jail? (or, please, have I got the decimal place wrong)

Hells bells.

That's at any one time. Include those who have served time and are now out and the the % of felons in the population must be pretty high.

1 out of every 32 of us is either in prison or on parole from prison, according to yet another report on Americans behaving badly from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
This means that 6.7 million adult men and women -- about 3.1 percent of the total U.S. adult population -- are now very non-voluntary members of America's "correctional community."

1 Out Of 32 Americans Under Correctional Supervision

Hells double bells.

We must have more that 33 regular American contributors here - so which one of you lot are on parole, in chokey, on the lamb?

Land of the free? Do me a favour. Why do you put up with this? This is basically criminal!