rancher of monsters said:
So apparently there's some unwritten rule that if you're in prison you're either raping somebody or being raped by somebody (At least through the eyes of most comedians, Tv shows, and movies). So picture your first day in jail, and you step into the dreaded shower room. Eventually your faced by somone who is at least two feet taller than you. If you know martial arts you hear that he/she has twice your rank in whatever discipline you study, as a matter of fact, you just saw him/her display their skill on another inmates skull that same morning.
This person (will call him Bubba for male prison, Barda for the ladies) makes his intentions very clear, and there's no help in sight.
What would you do?
Well, chances are I'd be in the infirmary or dead shortly thereafter.
Of course then again I'd also hope I had at least gotten an acknowlegement from one of the prison gangs like the Aryan brotherhood or whatever (being white). Hoping of course that this guy wasn't coming to "initiate me", and "collect dues", lol!
See, few people are going to be the king bad arses of the pen, which is why prison gangs form, mostly along ethnic grounds. While it would mean hanging out with a lot of unpleasant fellows, getting in with the right ethnic gang pretty much means you have people to watch your back, in exchange for you watching theirs.
So basically unless there is some kind of gang fight going down, "Bubba" isn't likely to get too cheeky when I drop the soap by accident because while he might be able to take me, as a result he might wind up getting shanked in the laundary room tomorrow.
Such things are always a craps shoot of course, but I figure that anyone who is doing time and doesn't want to experience constant violation (and by this I don't just mean sexually) is going to want to try and get in with whatever group of racists favors their group even if they aren't otherwise racist.
That said, I know enough about prison to know I probably wouldn't do especially well there.