"The not so young punk is sill trying to make excuses for his criminal acts an minimizing crimes which could have ended in death rather than facing up to responsibility for his acts."
This guy is but one example.
His sentence still wasn't rape, it was prison.
Imagine if a FReeper was put in jail on trumped up gun charges by some liberal DA pending trial, and was anally raped.
Would he "deserve" it more, less, the same?
While conditions might vary in New York, in civilized states there is a big difference between jail and prison. In most jails, unless you are being unreasonably hostile to the jailers, you won't be put in a high risk situation. Arrestees are separated from convicts, and low risk from high risk. The risk is actually quite low.
In prison, the risk is going to vary based upon where you get sent.(As a general rule, you will be better off in the federal system than the state, and conditions will vary within each system.)
In any event, as I first stated, I'll show some sympathy for this guy when he takes responsibility for his actions and shows remorse.
As someone else has noted up thread, prison rape is a crime. Whether society can afford the cost of enforcing that law is another issue.