Prison, yes, but really anywhere men live in isolation together. Boarding school, for instance, or I imagine army barracks, subs, etc. It’s not something that occurs to people immediately, but reference “The Shawshank Redemption,” or something similar, and it becomes obvious.
This is difficult for me to even comprehend, because as an Army MP in the 1980s I never heard of such things happening, and MPs knew all the dirt every place I was stationed. I know the Army covers up a lot of wrongdoing, and I myself was ordered to stand down and not apprehend a commissioned officer or senior NCO on more than one occasion, but everybody knew about those kinds of incidents. Anything even remotely suggestive of homosexuality back then would make a soldier persona non grata and probably investigated and thrown out of the service.
I just can’t imagine any of the NCOs or Officers that I served under protecting a degenerate rapist. And if the chain of command didn’t address an issue, it usually got settled with “NCO Justice” or peer-administered “non-judicial punishment”. I knew of barracks thieves and adulterers who had mysterious “training accidents”, and of course there were always stories about soldiers settling scores in the field with an e-tool across the head.
I guess my point is, in the military everybody knows what’s going on, and in my era soldiers tended to stick up for each other and take care of things even when the Army didn’t. The only thing more disgusting to me than the idea that the ranks are full of degenerate sexual predators is that nobody is speaking out, much less doing anything this reprehensible behavior.