Britain's (In)Justice Minister wants female criminals to be spared prison sentences

machsmit · 2009-12-04T00:45:07+00:00

A lot of serious women offenders have mental health issues and problems with drugs and alcohol abuse

because no male prisoners have those problems? I'd imagine it's every bit as common among male inmates, but I suppose they aren't worth reforming...

infosnax · 2009-12-04T04:01:50+00:00

"While there is a consensus that we need to be tougher on male offenders there is also a broad consensus that where possible we should punish and reform females in the community and not in prisons," said Mr Straw.

Yes, by all means, be tougher on men. Make their jail time more of a nightmare, because the current level of hellishness doesn't seem to be doing the trick to reform them. The women? Not so much.

PierceHarlan · 2009-12-04T05:02:51+00:00

This is almost unbelievable, even by loopy UK standards. What in the hell is wrong with the "men" over there? This is among the most inane and sexist ideas ever to come down the pike.

dust121 · 2009-12-04T09:02:01+00:00

They can accept that we are different on an intellectual level, clearly biologically we are different but if they start treating us with different with laws because of our gender, then i would definitely have a problem with that.

Title	Britain's (In)Justice Minister wants female criminals to be spared prison sentences
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Date	December 4, 2009 12:16 AM UTC (16 years ago)
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