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It has been two decades since Detroit was a fixture in the national news for its legendary crack trade and the waves of arson and vandalism carried out by teenagers the night before Halloween every year (a ritual famously known as “Devil’s Night”), but the city continues to have one of the highest rates of violent crime in the country.

“It was pretty ragged,” he recalled recently, “a tear down.”

The rituals of intake were familiar. Awesome right? He was also charged with “criminal sexual conduct” after the 9-year-old boy told the police John had molested him. Lawmakers, prosecutors, and victims’ rights groups have argued that some crimes are heinous enough to indicate an adult’s sense of responsibility, so nearly every state allows youth under 18 to be sentenced as an adult in specific cases, usually giving the choice to prosecutors or judges.

After PREA passed in 2003, the bipartisan commission announced it would obtain data on prison rape, write a report, and recommend a set of policy proposals “after two years.” The complexity and scope of the problem proved daunting, and it took nearly six; the report was released in 2009.

The next stop was Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, which spent three years (two more than they had initially planned) deliberating over the law and translating its recommendations into final standards.

As she struggled financially, he tried to help her by stealing from other students at school. I could go for a good fag bashing. Nathan's head bounced back slightly at the impact, “That was weak, here I am going out of my way to show you your place in the world and you can’t even managed a heartfelt thanks? It stuck to his tongue and spread throughout his tastebuds.

“Fuck Yea, how was your first kiss, fag?

In a kite—a secret letter—the other prisoner wrote to him, “You are always gonna be in my heart. The rapist may forcibly stimulate a victim to the point of erection and ejaculation. One kept an eye on the hallway while the other two took turns holding him down and penetrating him. They are muscular; they’re active, they’re wild—because teenagers without adult supervision can be that way—and they’re dangerous.” The attorney said his office “had a great deal of difficulty in trying to identify anybody who had actually been harmed, anybody who said they were under a current threat.”

In its January 2014 answer to the plaintiffs’ complaint, the Michigan Department of Corrections denied all of the allegations, insisting it had been acting in accordance with PREA ever since the law was implemented in August 2013.

Even if the victim identifies as LGBTQ+, same-sex rape is traumatic and does not in any way represent a desired sexual encounter.

One consequence of homophobia, ironically, is that it can be a motive for rape against someone thought to be gay or transgendered. He also didn’t want to get stabbed. That way, he could take a 20- or 30-minute shower with nobody around.

But he did not always succeed.

The significant underreporting of male-on-male rape, and the silence surrounding it, makes it difficult to provide an exact percentage. This comes from his asthma, which, in addition to several long scars that run along his legs and stomach, is the result of a moment that defined his childhood: When John was 4 years old, his single mother decided that she couldn’t take care of him anymore, so she left him inside their apartment and set the building on fire.