Prison for gays

[Rahul]

Not so much, in my experience.

I'm sure different prisons in different states have differences in how things go down. But I don't think you can compare living on prison grounds to actually being a man in prison.

Texas prisons are especially brutal.

I've read about a hundred stories like this.

Prison Rape Widely Ignored by Authorities

Just weeks after he entered the Texas prison system at age 19, Kerry Max Cook says he was gang-raped by fellow inmates. It was the beginning of what he describes as two decades of torture.

More than 200,000 men are raped behind bars each year, according to the group Stop Prisoner Rape. While rape under any circumstances is a violation, human rights advocates say rape in prison is also torture.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131113&page=1