Ezra Klein on prison rape

Ezra Klein points to a glaring moral failure on our (i.e., we Americans') part:

[P]olitically tough as it may be to address, it's morally abhorrent to ignore. And we have to remember: Every single time we sentence a suspect to jail time, we are tacitly consenting not merely to his imprisonment, but to his savage sexual assault, with all the physical and psychological damage it will bring.