'Raise The Age' Advocates Say 17-Year-Olds Shouldn't Be Jailed With Adults

There’s a scene in the 2011 animated film “Puss n Boots,” where Humpty Dumpty realizes he might have to go to prison. It has been criticized for being a not-so-subtle joke about prison rape. In fact, similar jokes appear regularly in the media, from the New York Post to “SpongeBob Squarepants.” And the jokes aren’t just offensive. They speak to a larger issue – how prison rape has been normalized in the minds of many Americans. It’s for that reason that back in 2015, at an NAACP rally, President Barack Obama addressed the issue.