men raped in US prisons

In 2003, the US Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. It estimated that over 200,000 inmates now incarcerated have been or will be, raped in prison. And that the number of inmates assaulted in the past 20 years likely exceeds 1,000,000.

Hmm. If male US soldiers, captured in Iraq, were raped, it would make headlines. Be irrefutable proof of the barbarity of the "terrorists". Right-wing pundits across the country would howl for Armageddon to be unleashed on everything within 1,000 miles of where the act took place. If the odd Israeli soldier, captured by the militant wing of Hamas, was raped, bombs would fall on Lebanon and Palestine without further discussion. Oh wait - they already did.

But when it happens, every minute, in prisons across the land, sanctioned by prison officers, ignored by legislators, sniggered at in the mass media - nothing.