Was Santana a rapist?

No he wasn't a rapist. The scene where he is with Yolanda, I believe just shows the audience that he does not know how to make love like a normal person. He grabs her and turns her around and has his way with her. The director was just trying to convey the fact that Sanatana had been institutionalized.

This guy has probably never been with a woman in his life. Any contact with a female would have been before he went to juvi, which means his was well under 18. He goes to juvinile detention and then goes straight to prison for 10 - 25 years. People have sex in prison, just not the kind of sex you want to be having. If that's all you know growing up it's going to mess you up. He was sexually dysfunctional, not a rapist.

Do some research on this film. One of the reasons the real Mexican Mafia supposedly had a hit out on Edward James Olmos is because they contested that the person Santana's character was based upon never raped anyone, man or woman.

Is he a rapist? Yes ... he had his manhood taken away and the dialogue with that woman at the end implies that during his time in jail he'd likely 'punsished' others by taking their manhood. However, the scene with the woman showed how disconnected he was by growing up in jail ... the woman agreed to have sex with him and maybe thought they were messing around, etc when he turned her over ... but then he didn't stop and instead of the front door he had sex the only way he knew how ... forced entry into the backdoor.

When you're raped in prison, the only way to get respect is to kill and rape other people. That way people won't tend to mess with you, because if you get raped and don't do anything about it, then you're fair game, and you'll be passed around like a box of cigarettes. Life is barbaric prison, and the prison personnel don't care. So Santana probably was a rapist, like he is a murderer. And this movie definitely wasn't painting him in some kind of light. It's simply a story about a man who made the wrong decisions and made for them dearly.

About the sex scene with the woman. From watching this scene and the fact that he had spent most of his life and all of his adult in prison tells me that he was a rapist that forced sex with a man. During the act he obviously was enjoying himself with the woman but in order to climax he had to get ruff with her, turn her over and rap her from the back (possibly imagining himself with a man) That scene alone answers the question for me. He was either a rapist of other men or he observed it and fantasized about it alot (which I seriously doubt).

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I get the impression he had sex with men in prison but I doubt he just raped innocent people because he was a bad man.

It could be that he traded drugs or protection for sex. He could also use forced sex as a punishment against others that went against him. There could also be men that enjoy sex and would be willing to have sex with him.

I also don't get the impression Santana was supposed to be a good man. He does horrible things in order to stay on top. When he gets out he learns that he does have a good side about him, or he discovers his humanity and tries to become a better person. This in itself is what leads to his downfall.

It also seems that he knew his decision would get him killed but he would rather die with now having his humanity than having to go back to the way things were before.

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