Double Standards in Prisons

In Canada, The Cross Gender Monitoring Project has recommended that male prison guards be removed from women's prisons, for the protection of women's privacy concerns. While the problems of sexual harassment by the staff of the prisons was investigated, it was found that male prison guards were rarely involved in these cases. But in 1993 the Canadian Supreme Court also decided that male inmates who objected to female prison guards frisking them were not important, since ""Imprisonment necessarily entails surveillance, searching and scrutiny. A prison cell is expected to be exposed and to require observation." In other words, when men commit crimes, they lose their right to privacy." Donna Laframboise examines this double standard in her National Post column. Thanks to Rand for the link. Source: National Post [Canadian newspaper]



Title: Double standard behind bars



Author: Donna Laframboise



Date: May 3, 2001

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