"We should stop putting women in jail. For anything"

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-11-07 00:24

Article here. Excerpt:

'It sounds like a radical idea: Stop incarcerating women, and close down women’s prisons. But in Britain, there is a growing movement, sponsored by a peer in the House of Lords, to do just that.

The argument is actually quite straightforward: There are far fewer women in prison than men to start with — women make up just 7 percent of the prison population. This means that these women are disproportionately affected by a system designed for men.

But could women’s prisons actually be eliminated in the United States, where the rate of women’s incarceration has risen by 646 percent in the past 30 years? The context is different, but many of the arguments are the same.
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If we can’t close down women’s prisons, we can at least slow down their expansion. Efforts to isolate women from their communities must be identified and opposed.

In Denver, for example, the Fail the Jail campaign helped defeat the addition of new jail beds. Instead, the director of the state’s community reentry project told me that alternatives have proven to help individual women and change community attitudes.'

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Fuggetaboutit. Silly idea. Constitution's sort of silly anyway, right? Well, only if it seems to be used to hold women accountable for their crimes.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-11-08 15:13

More proof that for feminists, the only way to treat women equally is to give them special treatment.

A woman murders her child. Don't put her in jail. She might have other children to care for.

A man murders his child. Put him in jail. He's a threat to his other children.

Now, putting this man in jail because he's a threat to his other children makes sense to me. And putting this woman in jail also makes sense to me. Because she's a threat to her children.

But--wailing and gnashing of teeth--she might suffer in jail. Jail is meant for men, not women. Oh, the poor dear.

The good news: Every article like this creates another MRA.

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Submitted by el cid on Sun, 2014-11-09 20:24