Maybe, you should ask someone who’s spent time in prison. As I understand it from former prisoners, it certainly happens. Use the common slang ‘punk’ around any of them (if you dare). It has a specific meaning to them for specific reasons - and that’s not from tv or the movies. And, no matter what they may have done that landed them in prison, prisoners do not take kindly to rapists and child molesters - they have mothers and sisters and sometimes wives and daughters, too. And worse yet - cannot protect their own directly while incarcerated. They will likely deliver their own retribution one way or another, no matter what anyone here thinks one way or the other.
