More than 80 per cent of female prisoners have been locked up for non-violent offences such as shoplifting, new figures show, as a drive is launched to clear jails of women who pose no danger to the public.What about men who ‘pose no danger to the public’? They can just languish behind bars, I suppose?
At least 17,000 children are separated from their mothers every year because of the “devastating impact” of imprisonment and are more likely to suffer homelessness, family problems and trouble at school, the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) warned.Ahhhh, right! It’s the motherhood angle!
Even though a break from mum’s so-called ‘parenting’ while she’s in chokey is probably a welcome relief to many…
Arguing that women are treated more harshly than men by the criminal justice system, it announced it had secured a £1.2m lottery grant to mount a three-year campaign to cut the number of female inmates.I suppose a poster and leaflet campaign pointing out to the chavette population that frequent shoplifting and getting plastered in the street before assaulting a stranger will land you behind bars won’t be how they spend the dosh?
Which is precisely why I've never bought a ticket. I already support lefty causes, whether I want to or not, via my taxes. Why should I throw good money after the loot removed from my pocket by government extortion?
ReplyDeleteIts amazing how the feminists manage to have two completely different arguments in their heads for different scenarios - suggest that the the fact that women are mothers means that they may not get treated the same at work, and its all equality, no different treatment or we're suing. However when its a case of women in prison, then suddenly their motherhood is all important and deserves them special treatment.
ReplyDeleteHow do they manage to hold such contrary concepts in their heads at one time?
"As a result they are disproportionately more likely to be jailed for less than 12 months, the sentence with the highest reoffending rate."
ReplyDelete“We need to listen to women with experience of the justice system and take seriously the mounting evidence that short periods of imprisonment are particularly destructive for women and the families who rely on them.”
So, women aren't sent to prison for as long as men for the same offence and this is unfair to women? Shouldn't they be campaigning for women to go to prison for longer?
Jim - it's what's wimmin really mean by multitasking
ReplyDeleteThis is not I and probably many others would consider a 'good cause'. Campaigning for what appears to be a justice system where gender is as much if not more a consideration as the facts of a particular case, don't fit into my definition of a 'good cause'. In fact I'll file it alongside 'Music for Asylum detainees' and similar projects as things that I refuse to voluntarily fund if I can avoid it.
ReplyDeleteBTW others and Julia in particular may be interested to see this particular example of a waste of lottery money diversity vanity project that I've written about. http://www.fahrenheit211.net/2015/08/23/have-a-look-at-the-herefordshire-diversity-officers-latest-vanity-project/
"Its amazing how the feminists manage to have two completely different arguments in their heads for different scenarios.."
ReplyDeleteI think calling them 'arguments' is a little generous..!
"Shouldn't they be campaigning for women to go to prison for longer?"
Feminist 'logic'!
"... this particular example of a waste of lottery money diversity vanity project..."
'Here For All'... no, not YOU!