In the New York Review of Books, David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow
review several recent government studies on prison rape and
conclude that there doesn't seem to be much interest even in
discovering the true extent of the problem, much less doing
anything about it.  [E]ven when authorities confirmed that
corrections staff had sexually abused inmates in their care,
only 42 percent of those officers had their cases referred to
prosecution; only 23 percent were arrested, and only 3 percent
charged, indicted, or convicted. Fifteen percent were actually
allowed to keep their jobs.  How many people are really
victimized every year? Recent BJS studies using a “snapshot”
technique have found that, of those incarcerated on the days the
surveys were administered, about 90,000 had been abused in the
previous year, but as we have argued previously,2 those numbers
were also misleadingly low. Finally, in January, the Justice
Department published its first plausible estimates. In 2008, it
now says, more than 216,600 people w