DiA flags a Bureau of Justice Statistics study on prison rape in juvenile facilities that found "12% of juvenile prisoners report being sexually abused, more than 10% of them by staff":
[E]ven the most hardened law-and-order, three-strikes types ought to find these numbers appalling. They can argue that retribution has some place in sentencing adults, but in juvenile facilities the focus ought to be squarely on rehabilitation, and doing everything possible to make sure these children—and they are children—lead productive rather than ruined lives.
The Dish 