State prison inmates are just as likely to have sexual contact with prison staff as they are with other prisoners, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report.

The report found that about 5.3 percent of former state prisoners reported sexual encounters of some kind involving facility staff. Of those, 1.2 percent reported that staff had forced them into the sex acts.

The results, just made available Thursday, come from the first-ever National Former Prisoner Survey, which was conducted between January 2008 and October 2008.

The statistics bureau found that about 5.4 percent of inmates who reported sexual victimization claimed it involved a fellow inmate, and 3.7 percent of those reporting an inmate-on-inmate incident claimed they were forced or pressured into the act.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that overall, 9.6 percent of former state prisoners were sexually victimized at least once during their incarceration.

The report came the same day the DOJ released a new rule intended to crack down on prison rape.