Presuming homosexual bodily violation of the prisoner to be a part of the sentence—is that an American thing?  I think it’s written into the laws there, or something.  Of course, it also happens in other places; but I don’t know anywhere else that people joke about it as if it were normal.

Cf. the acceptability of railroading a targeted individual with trumped-up tax charges.  I am NOT commenting either way on what’s happening with McAfee, whom I have just kind of ignored for years.  (Except to say that even a mentally retarded gasbag deserves not to be targeted like this—whom did he piss off?)  I am simply remarking on an American phenomenon that started with Al Capone—a bloody gangster, whom the bribe-taking American police were too corrupt to arrest for his many actual crimes (ordering murders, etc.).  Whence it became socially and politically acceptable for the government to target people with tax evasion charges driven by ulterior motives—oftentimes political dissidents.  And targeted tax charges are only a common manifestation of a deeper problem:  “We’ve got to get him for something!” is a real Americanism.  “#MAGA”