Rape is violent, destructive, and a crime—no less so when the victim is incarcerated. Until recently, however, the public viewed sexual abuse as an inevitable feature of confinement...

Congress affirmed the duty to protect incarcerated individuals from sexual abuse by unanimously enacting the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003.

I'm glad to see the government taking this problem seriously, although I have to agree with Reason's take:

The recommendations read more like a desperate plea for basic competency in prison management.

To my mind, there are two possibilities here. Either the commission has wasted years of funding and produced a vanilla, restatement-of-the-conventional-wisdom report, or the extent of safety problems in America's prisons beggars belief, making a novelty out of even the most conventional policy proposals.

Its the later.

National Prison Rape Elimination Commission - Publication - Report - Executive Summary