Great article by Misty Rojo of Justice Now! Since the “tough on crime” rhetoric has long since lost its appeal and even the GOP has decided to get “Right on Crime,” those who profit off of prisons have had to regroup and figure out how to continue selling prisons as the social answer to our problems. One of the ways to do that was to claim that they needed a different strategy for women. As their argument goes, women just need a little extra guidance and fuzzy, friendly cages; we just need to be nicer to our female offenders and recognize their specific needs as women. This was the logic that inaugurated the current era of gender responsive jail and prison expansion. Through the idea of gender responsiveness, the prison regime has appropriated feminist discourse by using the language of “specific needs for women” in order to manipulate the public into favoring prison and jail expansion as “progressive” and necessary for the well-being of women prisoners. bit.ly/1DCMJyg
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:09:11 +0000
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