[This is a speculative piece about what may happen to Keith Alan Raniere once he is sentenced and assigned to a permanent prison. I based my observations on interviews with former prisoners and in part on an excellent story in the Atlantic Rape in the American Prison. Some readers may think this is an attempt at humor or vengeance toward Raniere. It is not. Prison rape is nothing to laugh about and all prisoners, including Raniere, should be protected from it. The sad fact is they are not. And this piece is meant to show what is likely to happen to Raniere as it has happened to hundreds of thousands of other men in prison in our US prison industrial state.]
He’s a punk.
If he doesn’t get one lover to take care of him and protect him, he will get passed around. Everybody in his block will have their turn. He will be a prison bitch.
Raniere did not go in gay, but he may learn to love it. At first it’s going to be uncomfortable. Hopefully he’ll get somebody who won’t tear his insides up. Someone gentle with him.
This is not based on his being attractive. He is weak. Weak is prey. He’s a target, You can’t rape everybody. It takes a special kind of weak person. Raniere is it.
He is going to iron clothes and clean for his man and perform sexual duties for his lover or lovers. If one man owns him, he might last longer, but if he doesn’t get someone to take care of him, he won’t last long.
He will be required to provide oral stimulation. People will line up to have their turn.
They have jealousy issues. If a man owns Raniere, he might tell him he cannot have sex with other men. That man will give him protection. Everybody else in the unit will know Raniere belongs to him. He will clean, cook and perform sexual acts. They don’t talk about it. Raniere is not going to talk about it to other inmates.
If he gets passed around, in my opinion, he will internally bleed and end up with a colostomy bag. He always has his mouth. Once they bust all of his teeth out he can gum it.
If he gets a pimp, he can be pimped for the right price. His femininity will be appreciated. He will be a reminder of women, a girlfriend or wife.
In the shower he has certain risks. Some man will come and put his arm around his throat, tell him that if he screams he will break his neck, then rape him. If he gets raped in the shower, he may be owned by that man. He is his property. His man, Keith’s husband, whatever you want to call it. And he makes all decisions for Keith.
Who knows, his owner might sell Keith to another inmate for say $20 of commissary. His new husband will force him to clean, make their beds, fold his laundry, and be available for sex 24/7. He might use Keith to settle gambling debts. Every time he loses, guess what he will use to pay? Keith’s ass.
And if he says no to his husband, he will be slapped, punched, choked, and worse.
He won’t want to report the abuse. Reporting abuse puts him in danger.
And Keith will be targeted the moment he enters his permanent facility. He is white, small, physically weak, has feminine characteristics, a high voice, unassertive, shy, intellectual, not street-smart, passive and was convicted of a sexual offense against a minor.
His rapists will be larger, stronger, more assertive, aggressive, more at home in prison, street smart, maybe gang members convicted of violent crimes. The men who will rape Keith will not view themselves as homosexual and, outside prison, prefer women.
You are not gay as long as you do not allow another man to stick his penis in your mouth or anus. If you do the penetrating, you can still be macho.
He will be raped by black men or Hispanics. Blacks and Hispanics don’t rape the other group. That could cause a riot.
Only a black can turn out a black, and only a Chicano can turn out a Chicano. But whites are perceived as weak and vulnerable. When most guys come to prison, they know they have to fight. The majority of white guys are not physically equipped to fight. So they are the majority forced into sex.
When a white man comes, blacks see him as a target. White men are effete or gay, whites are cowards. Whites are prey. Even a punk will be supported if he beats up a white dude.
A white guy has got to be tough. Or smart or both. Raniere is neither.
As a new inmate, if he comes to an open barracks prison, there will be competition among convicts as to who will seduce and subjugate him. Unless a prisoner is strong, ugly, and violent, he is going to get seduced, coerced or raped.
When he comes for the first time, he won’t know anyone. The cliques and gangs will watch him. They’ll see if he spends time alone, who he eats with. They’ll start playing with him, checking him out. He’ll be fresh meat.
Prisoners might fight over who will have the ‘Fuck Boy’ as his property.
He might be overpowered. Some tough guy will get Keith in his cell and choke him unconscious and rape him. Raniere is about 5’4″ and 160 pounds. He might be raped by a man 6’7″ and 300 pounds. Small inmates have a hard time in prison. Raniere will be a hunted animal most of the time.
An inmate’s size and strength is important to fend off unwanted advances. More important is “heart”–the courage to fight and willingness to resort to violence. An inmate has to prove he will stand up for himself. Keith doesn’t have heart.
To avoid being raped, Raniere needs to come ready to fight. But they will punk him out. He won’t fight. They’ll make him give them coffee, cigarettes, make him do things. He may be intimidated into submitting to sex with a gang member out of fear that, were he to refuse, a violent gang attack would ensue.
He should try to hang out with tough guys, staying in his cell – they take that as weakness.
He has almost no choice but to hook up with someone that could make them give him a little respect. If he doesn’t choose, he will get chosen. He will face unrelenting sexual harassment unless an inmate protects him. His best bet is to have an inmate “husband,” someone powerful enough in the hierarchy to keep other inmates away from sexually assaulting him.
Then Raniere has another thing against him. He was convicted of sex crimes against minors. Without a husband, they may beat him with mop handles and broom sticks, shove a mop handle up his ass and leave him like that.
A cellmate will wake him up at 2:30 a.m. and rape him, bash him on the head with a combination lock. He will teach him what a baby raper is. As a sex offender against juveniles, he is at the bottom of the pecking order. He may be raped as punishment. Sex offenders are the number one target for rape.
It won’t be a total stranger. He will have some prior awareness of the man who rapes him. There may be a period of harassment. Leering to sexually aggressive comments to threats. His cellmate may be touchie-feelie. Finally one day he’ll attack him. Or maybe it will happen fast. He will make a suggestive comment at lunch and rape him in the evening.
Another thing may happen – if he is lucky – for it is better than rape – men will jack off and cum on him. That may save him from being raped. He may get letters under his cell door. “You are one sexy cracker,” one might read. “You need a nigger to show you how to act:” “When the opportunity comes, I want to sneak in your house and hit that.”
One night after last count before bed, his cellmate may suddenly attack him, pulling down his pants and wrestling him onto the bottom bunk. Keith will try to resist, but he will stand little chance as the more powerful man forces his way in, slowly and painfully, in silence, without a condom or lubricant. It may last seven minutes. And Raniere will endure it. And say nothing.
Snitches suffer fates worse than rape.
He might ask to be placed in protective custody and get turned down. Or if he gets to go, he may be given a misconduct ticket for refusing to leave solitary confinement out of fear of being raped. While in protective custody, he may spend an hour of recreation in an enclosed cage and inmates will stick their penises through the bars, threatening to hurt him if he doesn’t perform oral sex.
He may get beaten into submission and eventually he may sell himself around on weekends just like whore women of the streets.
Being raped, or “turned out,” redefines him as female; he must assume that role as the property of his conqueror or whoever claimed him and arranged his emasculation.
After multiple rapes, he may finally find an inmate to protect him from others in exchange for an exclusive right to sex. The inmate may refer to him as Jane or some other female name. He might force him to wear makeup and shave his legs. And there will be a jar of Vaseline.
Without a husband to protect him, Keith will be raped by cellmates and strangers, forced to perform oral sex, and will brush his teeth twice to get the taste of semen and cock out of his mouth. If he has anal bleeding he will try to get painkillers. I
Men will be going in and out of his cell and guards will not intervene. Prisoners will corner him in his cell and rape him. They’ll figure out his schedule—when he will be alone in his cell, or in the shower.He will be called “fuckboy,”. He will try to resist, but not too hard. He doesn’t want to get stabbed.
He will develop strategies to avoid being attacked; try to get in the shower—with a dozen shower heads and no privacy—alone before the afternoon shift change, when the prison locks down and nobody can move from where they are. But he will not succeed.
In a few days, three inmates will find him alone in the shower. One will keep an eye on the hallway while the other two take turns holding him down and penetrating him.
After the shower rapes, if he is lucky, Keith will meet, say, a white prisoner, maybe in his late 30s with blonde hair and a pierced tongue. A former cocaine dealer, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. And if he is lucky, he will tell Keith that if he masturbates him he’ll protect him from the other prisoners. If Keith gets a deal like this, he ought to take it.Anything he can do short of anal sex, such as touching and kissing—to protect himself from further violent rapes, he will do with pleasure. But there is jealousy. He may get a kite—a secret letter—from his white protector. It will read, “You are always gonna be in my heart. I know I’m in yours. If you leave me I will stab you.”
He has become his slave.
