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Re: England moving to only jail women for serious crimes.

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(HumptyDumptysBalls)
Prison reform for everyone? Meh.

Prison reform for women? Now that's what I call progressive!

The whole world is on fucking crazy pills.

(Jex117)
Feminism literally doesn't care about equality. It's about special treatment for women.

(DepressiveVortex)

I'm fine with steps in the right direction. Even if this is blatantly sexist. When the data shows it working it'll be impossible to stop it expanding to the general prison population.

Why do you think that though? Women have had advantages in college and university acceptance a long time now, and have overtaken men. By your logic, we would now see programs aimed at getting men in. But we don't.

Yeah, we'll have to give them that - it's way easier and cheaper to test if this works on a smaller prison population.

But still, if the intent was to "test it" rather than give women special treatment, they could have done so much better, even selecting randomly "for the program" seems a better idea.

If this were a program aimed at equality it would simply target the laws on how much prison time and fines etc can be given for lower level crime. It has nothing to do with applying it at a lower sample size.

(Mefic_vest)
Want to combat this?

Get in contact with every man who has not committed a serious crime, but who is at risk of being imprisoned, and help them change their legally-assigned gender to Female. Coach them on what to say, in terms of “identifying” as a female. Then, when the courts refuse to let them off under this new rule, they can sue the courts for “gender discrimination”.

(Rethgil)
Same here. I obviously don't tell people usually because of my sensitive feelz and fears of being shamed, but I'll whip out my female pussy pass claims quicker than a speeding sports star in a supercharged sports car if I'm challenged in a court of law

(-Master-Builder-)
The UK is about to have the highest 'female' crime rate in the world.

(jm5151)
This could be a positive criminal justice policy, however I can't even imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to apply somthing like that to one gender imo

(remeber1812)

Right? Like it's not even a bad idea, but why on Earth would it only apply to women? Because men can 'handle' prison and women need to be pampered? I don't think either side would agree to that.

No matter how much you think its true man and woman are not truly equal thus being less harsh to woman helps everyone in the long run

(ModsAreThoughtCops)
Shit is falling apart on the other side of the pond.

Guy has potato peeler in public? ILLEGAL

Girl shoplifts from store? Well she doesn’t need to go to jail, she just needs help.

(Presumably) Guy shoplifts from store? Jail is appropriate.

(lloydj20)
I work in a Canadian Jail and it's ridiculous how these women get treated compared to the men. They get hairdressing classes, makeup on their canteen (commissary), A bath tub on the unit, A fridge on the unit, A laundry room on the unit, 3 flat screen TVS on the unit, a treadmill and exercise room on the unit, and much better programming than the men get. The mentality is that Women are "Victims" and often manipulated by men. It's a fucking joke!!!

(SkeptiCynical)
I'm on the other side of the pond, but maybe an attorney from GB could tell me if this is doable:

The very first man to be jailed for any offense from which women are pre-emptively spared jail time should sue the state for unequal application of justice, gender discrimination, and malicious prosecution.

They're building five new residential centers for this? That's what a jail is. It looks like someone's lining their pockets with contractor pounds.

I thought my state was an out-of-control insane liberal utopia. Gauke is proposing a country club for criminals because of their genitalia, and staging a future where a seriously privileged female class will think nothing of committing 'small crimes'.

Don't worry. Gender isn't based on genitalia anymore.

Ah right. I meant "whatever invented combination of genitalia, sexual preference and vague concept of self is convenient for me to identify as this weeks preferred victim class".

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