"The U.S. Rate of Incarcerated Women is Shockingly High, and Rising" says a woman who then proceeds to brush off the number of men in prison.

CelestialDos · 2015-11-21T10:58:46+00:00

“but comparing women's incarceration rate to that for men paints a falsely optimistic picture.” Women face gender-specific brutality in prisons, including rape by prison authorities, shackling during labor, and inferior medical care.

Are you fucking kidding me?

bertreapot · 2015-11-21T12:01:23+00:00

The last sentence:

“Within the U.S., it is commonly noted that women are incarcerated far less frequently than men,” the study concludes, “but comparing women's incarceration rate to that for men paints a falsely optimistic picture.” Women face gender-specific brutality in prisons, including rape by prison authorities, shackling during labor, and inferior medical care. Interpretation This study also found that men were incarcerated more frequently and for longer but we are not going to say this because it defeats the purpose of our biased report so lets find something that may affect females. Rape, but rape is far worse in male prisons! It makes me so angry when journalists try to be clever with words to evade the obvious.

Niketi · 2015-11-21T11:28:39+00:00

I was wondering when this idea of just closing down women's prisons and awarding them community service for whatever crimes they commit would come to America. It's the final evolution of the pussy pass.

ramot1 · 2015-11-21T14:37:04+00:00

"gender-specific brutality in prisons, including rape by prison authorities"

wow, prison rape is a "gender-specific brutality" for women? Stupid Level 9000.

Keiichi81 · 2015-11-21T16:44:09+00:00

Why isn't it a stronger talking point around these parts that 93% of our prison population is male?

StopTop · 2015-11-21T15:53:22+00:00

There are way too many women and men in our prison system.

This is a real problem that fuck heads like to divide us over. First race now gender.

It's a fucked up problem that all sexes and races should be angry about. The People as a whole.

I'm so tired of this division and how easily it works for those in power.

icefire54 · 2015-11-21T18:28:52+00:00

Warren Farrell showed that women are treated much better than men in prison. This article is complete garbage. I am so baffled at the stupid that I am at a loss for words.

Juan_Golt · 2015-11-21T17:30:34+00:00

More evidence that you can fabricate a grievance about anything. The goal posts for equality will always move.

ashlaaaaay · 2015-11-21T20:31:48+00:00

http://archive.is/wi6s1

txroller · 2015-11-21T15:42:58+00:00

let's hear it for equal opportunity

2015-11-21T18:31:57+00:00

According to feminists, this should be great news. The low incarceration rate of women and their shorter sentences is a result of patriarchy and sexism, because women are viewed as weak.

If that's changing, then we're becoming more equal! Yay!

TheDude41 · 2015-11-22T04:09:03+00:00

Women face gender-specific brutality in prisons, including rape by prison authorities, shackling during labor, and inferior medical care.

Shackling during medical procedures, rape by prison authorities, and inferior medical care all happen more often to male prisoners than female prisoners.

Keep whining about it though. White women: the most spoiled overall demographic of human beings on the face of the planet.

LineChatter · 2015-11-21T18:34:23+00:00

She has every right to bring attention to the plight of women in prison, but it's just the way she dismisses the male prison problem that rubbed me the wrong way. She could have said something like, "A lot has been written about the number of men in prison but not a lot of attention is given to women, and problems include x, y, and z." Instead she chose the typical "women are victims here and let's not bother talking about men because women have it much worse" which doesn't translate well in a prison article.

manofsea · 2015-11-21T18:44:07+00:00

Is the high female incarceration numbers a issue yes, but it is a huge issue for both genders and race.

Unenjoyed · 2015-11-21T18:58:33+00:00

The editors at Slate.com seem clueless.

GunsGermsAndSteel · 2015-11-21T19:24:06+00:00

"Women face gender-specific brutality in prisons, including rape by prison authorities, shackling during labor, and inferior medical care."

All these are issues that male prisoners face just as often as females. These are not "gender specific brutalities".

gmcalabr · 2015-11-21T20:00:26+00:00

The quote "Federal pound me in thw ass prison" was not referring to a womens prison.

MRMRising · 2015-11-21T23:19:15+00:00

Women face gender-specific brutality in prisons, including rape by prison authorities, shackling during labor, and inferior medical care.

Gender Specific? For fuck sake, men get raped in prison all of the time. As for shackling, well male prisoners have been shackled for centuries, so how is that gender specific? I am willing to bet the average female prisoner gets better treatment than the average male prisoner.

Kiwi150 · 2015-11-22T04:13:56+00:00

So, rate of incarceration is approaching equality and this is bad?

2015-11-22T02:13:48+00:00

Make the prisons co-ed and maybe the numbers will even out.

rustybuckets · 2015-11-21T16:19:43+00:00

It's an article about female incarceration rates you dipshit.

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