Is there any evidence that "rapists get raped in prison" ? [View all]

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In context of the Steubenville case and otherwise, I have (not specifically on DU but in general) seen people suggest that payback will come in the form of prison rape.

As far as I know statistics do show that prison rape is rampant. But is there any evidence at all that the targets of this are most frequently violent criminals, rapists, child murderers and so on?

It seems to be much more logical that these exact violent criminals, once they end up in prison, will continue to be violent people and will end up being the ones doing the raping. If a person has a tendency for violent crime of one sort, say armed robbery, doesn't it usually come packaged with tendency to also commit other violent crimes?

It just seems implausible that if you put a rapist into a cell with, say, a non-violent drug offender, that the later will somehow emerge as exercising dominance over the former.



edit to clarify: I do not support prison rape as a means of justice. The aim of this post is clarification. It is a response to others who have suggested prison rape as a form of justice.