"Program Resonates with People: Giving women a chance to change"

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2007-02-26 21:31

Article here. Excerpt:

"People don't understand women who have been in prison," said Penny Painter, executive director of Resonance. "They're not particularly violent. They are in for poverty- and drug-related crimes.

...Crawford said she first smoked marijuana in third grade and started drinking heavily shortly thereafter. She had nine assault-and-battery charges by age 14. She didn't miss a fight."

'Not particulary violent'? This woman had nine violent offense brought against her by the age of fourteen!

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Poverty- and drug-related..hmm, sounds like potential for robbery, burglary, prostitution and fighting (assault). I guess those don't count as serious crimes.

You could say the same thing about reasons why some men commit crimes. But no-one ever does. It is not P.C.

-axo

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Submitted by axolotl on Tue, 2007-02-27 01:52

Almost no one commits crimes simply for the pleasure of it.

Women just as usual getting forgiven their trespasses against society while men when they are convicted of a crime are forced to pay not only their own debt but help pay the collective debt of society.

As usual, society is focusing on those least in need and offering them all the help while the ones in the most need get nothing.

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Submitted by Paragon on Tue, 2007-02-27 15:55

HOW INDIVIDUAL WOMEN ARE GIVEN MORE POWER TO KILL THAN THE ENTIRE U.S. GOVERNMENT

"Taken together, the twelve female-only defenses allow almost any woman to take it upon herself to 'exercise the death penalty.' The government is not allowed to take it upon itself to kill someone first and declare him or her an abuser later - only a woman can do that to a man.

"Women Who Kill Too Much and the Courts That Free Them: The Twelve 'Female-Only' Defenses" Excerpted from "The Myth of Male Power" by Warren Farrell, Ph.D.

http://www.dadsnow.org/studies/millr-dv.htm
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And by the way, people don't understand women who DON'T go to prison, either!

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Submitted by Roy on Tue, 2007-02-27 22:15