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Prison Rape 6 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Sexual assault behind bars, where victims have nowhere to go and few people believe them.

  1. Season 8 · Episode 16

    Philadelphia

    Aired February 27, 2007 · Rape

    Benson finds her half brother just as a New Jersey captain targets him as a rapist, while her distraction costs the squad a chance to catch two men raping men in Central Park.

  2. Season 11 · Episode 9

    Perverted

    Aired November 18, 2009 · Murder

    A biker’s mutilation murder is pinned on Benson through her car and her DNA, and the squad races to prove the evidence against her was manufactured.

  3. Season 12 · Episode 7

    Trophy

    Aired November 3, 2010 · Rape and murder

    A rape-murder suspect’s box of keepsakes points to attacks from 1970, leading Benson to a woman who learns, as Benson once did, that she was conceived in a rape.

  4. Season 17 · Episode 22

    Intersecting Lives

    Aired May 18, 2016 · Rape and sexual abuse by a corrections officer

    A former inmate accuses a Rikers corrections officer of raping her inside and outside the jail, and SVU builds a case while his union closes ranks.

  5. Season 18 · Episode 2

    Making a Rapist

    Aired September 28, 2016 · Rape and murder

    A man freed after 16 years by a retested rape kit becomes the prime suspect when the daughter of the woman who misidentified him is raped and killed.

  6. Season 24 · Episode 14

    Dutch Tears

    Aired February 16, 2023 · Rape in custody

    A man Fin arrested as a teenager 23 years ago confronts him at gunpoint and demands justice for his rape in a city holding cell.

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