how violent are women prison really?
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I had the experience of working in a maximum security female prison for a year...I worked in a male maximum security facility for 9 years...\n\nAs an experienced officer...I would say that males are more violent than the females...but the females are more aggravating...\n\nThe women are more caring for each other than the males....they are concerned with the lively hood of each other..\n\nthe women set themselves up in environments that are called pseudofamilies...this mean they have a family structure inside the facility...., just as you would have with your family at home...there are grandparents, aunts, uncles, husbands, wifes, chidren. and cousins...there are no problems as long as no one bothers a member of the family....and yes...they are constructed just like real families...\n\nthe women are very touchy, feely with each other and a bull digger will fight real quick for her lover....most of the fights were about sleeping with someone's girlfriend or bulldigger!\n\nI can not really say that the women are really violent...I will say that some of them have committed some horrible crimes...the majority are mostly locked up for some crime that they committed while using drugs or alcohol....the majority are black females...most of the women have committed prior offnses before being locked up...\n\nIf you want to read all the statistics of the female inmates...check out the Bureau of Justice website...or visit the website...Women In Prison.....
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You don't AGREE WITH IT???  Do something about it!  I'm seriously shocked that you had to ask this question... I would move to protect ANY LIVING CREATURE whether I knew them or not.  I hate to post this huge peice of info, but you need to see it.\n\nEstimates range from 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year1 to three million women who are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year.2 \nAround the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.3 \nNearly one-third of American women (31 percent) report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey.4 \nNearly 25 percent of American women report being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date at some time in their lifetime, according to the National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted from November 1995 to May 1996.5 \nThirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.6 \nIn the year 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner.7 \nIntimate partner violence is primarily a crime against women. In 2001, women accounted for 85 percent of the victims of intimate partner violence (588,490 total) and men accounted for approximately 15 percent of the victims (103,220 total).8 \nWhile women are less likely than men to be victims of violent crimes overall, women are five to eight times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner.9 \nIn 2001, intimate partner violence made up 20 percent of violent crime against women. The same year, intimate partners committed three percent of all violent crime against men.10 \nAs many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy.11 \nWomen of all races are about equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate.12 \nMale violence against women does much more damage than female violence against men; women are much more likely to be injured than men.13 \nThe most rapid growth in domestic relations caseloads is occurring in domestic violence filings. Between 1993 and 1995, 18 of 32 states with three year filing figures reported an increase of 20 percent or more.14 \nWomen are seven to 14 times more likely than men to report suffering severe physical assaults from an intimate partner.15 \nDomestic Homicides\n\nOn average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner.16 \nWomen are much more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner. In 2000, intimate partner homicides accounted for 33.5 percent of the murders of women and less than four percent of the murders of men.17 \nPregnant and recently pregnant women are more likely to be victims of homicide than to die of any other cause18 , and evidence exists that a significant proportion of all female homicide victims are killed by their intimate partners.19 \nResearch suggests that injury related deaths, including homicide and suicide, account for approximately one-third of all maternal mortality cases, while medical reasons make up the rest. But, homicide is the leading cause of death overall for pregnant women, followed by cancer, acute and chronic respiratory conditions, motor vehicle collisions and drug overdose, peripartum and postpartum cardiomyopthy, and suicide.20 \nHealth Issues\n\nThe health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide committed by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year. Of that amount, nearly $4.1 billion are for direct medical and mental health care services, and nearly $1.8 billion ar
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I agree with you that there should be more creative forms of punishment.  We mix non-violent and violent prisoners together and we have horrible overcrowding of prisons. However, I was once on a jury during the trial of a man who defrauded dozens of elderly people out of their life savings.  Many lost their homes.  While he didn't physically assault them, his crime against them was extremely harmful and cruel, and we need to protect society against such people.
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That's an awfully broad question, but whatever it is you need to know, someone here will have an answer http://prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=128
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Just you asking that could nail you but good.\n\nAttempted assault in most places is good for 60 days to a year in prison.\n\nAttempted murder will get you 5-10 years in the State pen.\n\nI suggest you find some self control and an education before you get a permanent hotel room with bars and a new boyfriend.
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I know a lot of folks who've been in the joint (I live in a poor neighborhood & I used to work in construction). \n\nFrom what I know, prison sucks for both genders - it's boring, there are a lot of a**holes in there, the clothes are ugly, the medical care is inadequate and the guards will kick your ass in a heartbeat.\n\nAnd there are a LOT of fights in jail - and a lot more tension. Male prisoners are CONSTANTLY trying to avoid fighting - since fights = lockdown and on lockdown you're stuck in your cell and that really sucks (no commissary, no phone calls, no lifting weights or playing basketball in the yard ect).\n\nThat's why ex jailbirds tend to be overly polite - in prison, if you even THINK you insulted another prisoner, you say you're sorry immediately - otherwise there WILL be a fight - and I just told you what happens when they fight - it screws it up for everybody\n\nBut, the food is good, and they have really big portions \n\nThis is true for both men and women\n\nFor guys, there is a LOT of the gay stuff- but it's mostly CONSENSUAL \n\nMost guys admit they had sex with men in the joint, but they swear that they were "the man" and the other guy was "the bitch" (of course, at least 50% of them are lying)\n\nOf course, there are jailhouse rapes (and, legally speaking ALL prison sex is rape since prisoners are considered legally dead in terms of civil law when they are inside and therefore they cannot consent to sex) but most jailhouse sex is consensual (men with no other outlet doing what they have to do to fulful their urges)\n\nIn women's jails, their is a LOT of lesbianism (and here, it's almost 100% consensual, it's almost unhead of for a woman to rape another woman in the joint)\n\nAnd there is a lot of sex with the guards - male Corrections Officers give special "favors" to their little prison girlfriends - more food, special items that the commissary doesn't stock, better work assignments ect\n\nlegally, that's all rape (and from time to time DoC cracks down on the guards who have sex with prisoners)\n\nThere's also a lot more fighting in women's prisons.\n\nThe guys tend to avoid fights since the consequences are so serious and they get super polite to make sure that they don't have a fight unless there's no other choice\n\nWomen in prison aren't like that \n\nYou know how women are on the outside ? They love to argue and pick fights, and they won't drop it until they win?\n\nWomen are WORSE in the joint!\n\nArguments will start at the drop of the hat (women prisoners even ARGUE WITH THE CO'S! Since male CO's are less likely to kick a woman prisoner's ass than a male, the girls know they can get away with it)\n\nAnd, since  the DoC isn't as quick to use teargas, mace and nightsticks against fighting women inmates, the women know the consequences aren't as serious as they are in the male institutions\n\nso the girls fight all the time, over dumb stuff (just like women do in the real world)\n\nIn other words, prison sucks for women just as much as it does for men, but in a slightly different way!
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No doubt..,they treat women like dogs..,if a woman is raped,it is up to her family to kill her as they consider her damaged goods.Germany is having a massive problem with that going on right now and we will be heading down the same road if we dont stand up to the muslims.You know they did that crap on the air line just to scare the hell out of people.Sick bastards.
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That is a hard question to answer. I think it depends on your home life and surroundings. I'm pretty sure that it would be a that the numbers are pretty close between the men and the women. However, a woman is more likely to report her abuser, than a man would! I have seen alot of men get "smacked" around by their wives/girlfriends, more than I see men doing the "smacking"... you decide
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This always the case, the murderers demanding mercy and rights, but did they show mercy when they were doing their heinous acts?\n\nPrison is good place afterall, some people can only live in prison.
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Just a would be abuser that is afraid of going to jail.  It would be an honourable statement if he said he wouldn't hit you because REAL men don't hit women.
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That is abuse and will get you thrown in jail, cut and dry.  Hitting is NOT ALLOWED!
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Wow.  As an older person, this is really an informative site!  Growing up in my day we couldn't even talk about what is going on here. Personally at my age I don't have the body for it. Women have always done what they needed to do to survive in the world.  Unfortunately they have to work under situations that men in general don't have to deal with.  Women are paid less for the same types of work and denigrated on many occasions for being female, period.  When a woman makes "good" money there are always rumors of sleeping their way to the top. It comes down to the simple matter of respect.  Mothers are blamed for the way a child is raised, so where was the father role?  Women are jailed for prositution, so what about the johns or pimps?  Martha Stewert was jailed for something Corporate heads have been doing ever since the stock market was instituted.  Women have consistantly been jailed for longer periods of time for crimes men commit and get a slap on the wrist for.\n\nBottom line, be proud of your survival skills, don't "wimp" out.  You are doing something that gives pleasure: To the person you are dancing for and yourself for supporting yourself and your education for the future.  Just don't mess with the "extra-curricular" stuff that tends to go along with this business.  And be careful.  Society already looks at you askance and will believe you are doing something "wrong", or if you are attacked in some way, you deserve what you get.  \n\nBe careful and enjoy your adventure.
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Can women be accused of sexual harrasment?\n\nShould voting be compulsory?\n\nElectoral College, Yay or Nay?\n\nDo video games lead to violent behavior?
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The amount of women that are being incarcerated has increased at a rate of 20 to 1 in the last ten years. The crimes being committed by women are mainly crimes taht are drug-related or crimes committed trying to get the next fix!
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Women have been arrested and sent to jail for spousal abuse.  You don't hear much about it because, for the most part, men are stronger than women and a woman would have to be crazy to start a physical fight with someone who can kill her with one punch.  And please, always remember, TV is not real life.  A woman slaps a man on TV to add drama and excitement to the plot, but if she slapped him in real life, it wouldn't cause any physical harm to most men.  If a man, however, hauled off and slapped a woman, his upper body strength would propel her into the next room.  And no, equal rights between men and women is another myth.  Just look at payroll statistics.
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Depends on the offense and what state you're in...some violent offenders do qualify for "good time" if they stay out of trouble while they are in.\nIf you need more input without the nasty comments, try at http://www.prisontalk.com
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Are these girls still living? \nAs long as women still think it is normal to be beaten up by men who profess to "Love" them they will never be fully emancipated. Come on ladies it's the 21st century for gods sake!