The following is from a book titled "Gender War, Gender Peace" by Aaron Kipnis and Elizabeth Herron (1995).

Over one million American men have no freedom at all. Many men in the United States are not merely prisoners of social stereotypes that deny them access to their deeper feelings, they are also being physically imprisoned at a rate exceeded by no other nation on earth.

The majority of crime is related to substance abuse, yet there are few recovery programs for these men, many of whom are nonviolent. Men are arrested for drugs six to one over women, but are incarcerated ten to one. Women are much more likely to be referred to intervention programs, social welfare organizations, social service, and mental health practitioners for the same disorders for which men are routinely incarcerated. Not surprisingly, about 95% of all incarcerated persons are male. In prison, men usually serve longer sentences than do women for similar crimes and are raped in numbers matching those of women not in jail. However, we have few programs, if any, to deal with the post traumatic stress disorders of men who have been victimized in the penal system.

The prison system is like a fast breeder reactor of violence. It takes wounded, addicted, confused, impoverished, undereducated, unemployed and desperate men, strips them of their remaining humanity, releases them enraged and bent on exacting revenge against a callous social system.

This must change if we are to create a just society.