 In the US, the overwhelming majority of cases are men who are raped by other men.In some jurisdictions, sexual contact with inmates by prison staff is illegal regardless of consent.The well-known teardrop tattoo sometimes signifies that the wearer was raped while incarcerated and tattooed with a teardrop under the eye by the rapist, as a way of “marking” an inmate as the property of another person and humiliating the inmate while in prison, as a tattoo on the face cannot be covered up or hidden.