Comic Books
Tranvestite punks with practised, toothless mouths come here, to cater to the wiseguys' every whim. It's never talked about- faggots are the lowest of the low- but all the same, it happens.
—The Punisher MAX, "The Cell"
Films — Live-Action
Do you know what happens to a cop in prison? You are brutalised every single day over and over... you become a human toilet.
—Richard Thompson, The Bone Collector
"You know what a cop fears most? More than getting shot, more than anything. Prison. Getting locked up with everybody you put away. You threaten a cop with that, you make him dangerous."
— Mike Ehrmantraut, Better Call Saul
Kate's the only family I have. And Blues in jail don't last long. She goes down for this, it's a death sentence.
—Faith, Mirror's Edge
Superintendent Pendrew: That's a fucking death sentence!
Wei Shen: I know.
Superintendent Pendrew: Wei, you can't! I won't last a day in there!
Wei Shen: That's the plan.
"Do you know what they do to pedophiles in the big house? Shank 'em in the shower and turn their pee into wine, that's what they do!"
— Marty Glouberman, Big Mouth
"Do you know how they treat tiny men like you in prison?"
— Mom, The Brak Show
At Buchenwalde, political prisoners wear red stripes, religious objectors pink stripes, "work-dodgers" (including most Jews) black stripes. Among the most abused groups are Nazi renegades and homosexuals.
— LIFE, "Nazi Germany Reveals Official Pictures of Its Concentration Camps
", August 21, 1939 (page 22-23)
", August 21, 1939 (page 22-23)Reaching the bottom of this dark list of criminals, the prison's hierarchy possessed the hated sex offenders. There were the rapists called 'skinners.' Below them, the lowest of them all, were deviants not to be considered human. They were the despised child molesters, the pedophiles called 'diddlers.' Many of those madmen were not even recognized as being in the prison's food chain.
—Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons (page 65)
)Many sex offenders only received Concord sentences to serve. One or two years for aggravated rape, or rape of a retarded child under the age of seven. Other inmates complained that it would have been better had they, "skinned a kid, rather than robbed a gas station."
—Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons (page 95)
)O. J. Simpson, another celebrity-turned-felon, doesn’t think it can be done. “They’re going to have to put him in protective custody,” he told TMZ after Cosby’s sentencing.
“The problem is the nature of the crime,” Simpson said. “Rapists are frowned upon in prison.”
“The problem is the nature of the crime,” Simpson said. “Rapists are frowned upon in prison.”
—O.J. Simpson warns 'rapists are frowned upon' as Bill Cosby spends first day in jail mostly alone, The National Post (September 28, 2018)
, The National Post (September 28, 2018)