If we're done being outraged over the savage austerity of Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania maybe we can get back to the topic.
I'd want to know the
reasonwhy those adolescents are in an adult prison. If it's some mandatory sentencing BS over dope or whatever and they are non-violent offenders that have been f****d by the system I'd be 100% against them being there. But, it could just be that they really ARE bad apples and only and adult prison can handle them.
It's rather disingenuous to refer to 17 year olds as "children" when they are quite capable of carrying out anything and 18 year old (or older) can. If someone had called me a "child" at 17 I probably would have shot them.

Adult and child in this case are only legal terms and have nothing to do with capability.
As far as rape in prison don't look for that to end any time soon or ever. Well, they could go back to working them till they're too tired for anything like that or back to using the sweat box or the strap on them like what they used to back in the day. I can see the American Criminal Liberties Union (ACLU for short) having a cow over even the suggestion of any of the above.
Even if they did have enough guards to watch over everything they guards themselves wouldnt have the inclination to do it effectively. Guards like turmoil and predation within the prison population. That keeps the inmates angry at each other so they won't focus thier combined energies on overpowering the guards and breaking out en masse. Think about it.