Prison Rape and the Drug War

Stop the Drug War has an excellent feature about prison rape - a human rights' issue that is still socially acceptable to make bad jokes about. The feature tells the horrible stories of men and women who had to deal with the aftermath of prison rape.

The most interesting and gross part of this story is the way the trolls came along to infest the comment section with typical slut-blaming:

The first man, Chance Martin, claims to have been ganged raped while in a COUNTY lockup while awaiting trial. He claims he was put into a cell holding 40 other men, and that this cell was not supervised. While I can believe there were times every cell was not under the supervision of a guard, I find it this story not believable. A county jail has many small cells, and these people would have been seperated into smaller cells, not left in in one big area unsupervised.

**This article is asking me to believe that within 24 hours without freedom in a COUNTY lockup, the majority of men will turn into raping animals. Are men really like this? If so, they all need to be locked up anyway, just to keep them away from everybody else.

Is it possible there is a motive for this claim other than the stated one? Perhaps to decriminalize drugs? While I have no doubt that rape in PRISON happens, a county lockup defies belief.

The commenter thinks that a person would lie about rape in order to win sympathy towards ending the drug war. How do people this stupid remember to breathe?