Responses to misandrist article on male/female prisoners‏

From Marc A.: MRA Joe Manthey of Petaluma, CA sent out this article in which misandrist professor Barbara Bloom manufactures a smoke-and-mirrors style "crisis" for female prisoners using the usual one-sided feminist hypocrisy. Most of what Barbara Bloom says about female inmates can also be said of male prisoners, but she misleadingly weaves those things in with a few statistical differences to propagate her myths. And she totally ignores the sentencing disparities that men already face. If you have a moment, please write to the editor at letters-at-pressdemocrat.com and copy Barbara Bloom at bloom-at-sonoma.edu. The letter I sent is below the excerpt as follows:

'We are facing a correctional crisis in California that is unparalleled in other states. With prisons at or above 200 percent of capacity and federal court intervention imminent, a hidden aspect of corrections is the plight of incarcerated women.

Relative to men, the number of women in state prison may seem small. But, at more than 11,000, female prisoners are a growing and significant population, currently the largest in any state. Additionally, there are almost as many women locked up in county jails. The net result is more than 22,000 women in custody.

Not only are women prisoners hidden, their pathways to prison are often neglected and not addressed. Additionally, women have different reasons for being in prison than men, different histories of abuse and addiction, different family roles and relationships, different health concerns and different motivations to change.'