![]() What Johnson got next was something that his sentence never stipulated and that his family could have never imagined. This kind of hypermasculinized prison hierarchy is something that Lara Stemple, the Executive Director of the twenty-year-old nonprofit organization Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) says is “systemic to the extent that most correctional officers turn a blind eye to it, and leave inmates to fend for themselves.” ![]() Once identified as punks, men like Johnson find themselves at the bottom of a harsh, rigidly defined prison pecking order where guards and wardens rule over increasingly overcrowded, understaffed facilities. Whether straight or gay, their lives are lived in servitude to more aggressive inmates. ![]() In prison jargon, “punks” are those inmates forced into a sexually submissive role.
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