By Mike Buchanan: It’s estimated that if male criminals were treated as leniently as female criminals, five out of six men in British prisons wouldn’t be there. The male prison population would fall from around 81,000 to around 13,000.
Today we’re posting an open letter to Michael Gove MP, Justice Secretary, along with two pieces by William Collins, UK Prisoners – The Genders Compared and The Corston Report – A Case Study in Gynocentrism.
This is by way of being an Addendum to the last post on the gender bias in our criminal justice system. In 2007 the Home Office published a report by Baroness Corston on the treatment of women within the UK criminal justice system, especially prisons, known as The Corston Report. This report contains my all time favourite feminist quote,
The thrust of the report’s recommendations are for a more understanding, caring, compassionate treatment of female offenders. I could be persuaded that many of the report’s recommendations are good ideas. I tend to think that there must be something more constructive that could be done with offenders than simply have them sit in prison, bored to death, doing nothing for months or years. But I have one little problem with the report. This caring, compassionate and understanding approach is for women only.
Today we’re posting an open letter to Michael Gove MP, Justice Secretary, along with two pieces by William Collins, UK Prisoners – The Genders Compared and The Corston Report – A Case Study in Gynocentrism.
This is by way of being an Addendum to the last post on the gender bias in our criminal justice system. In 2007 the Home Office published a report by Baroness Corston on the treatment of women within the UK criminal justice system, especially prisons, known as The Corston Report. This report contains my all time favourite feminist quote,
Equality does not mean treating everyone the same.I kid you not. The Baroness liked the sound of that so much, she used it twice. Some animals are more equal than others: it’s right there on the page.
The thrust of the report’s recommendations are for a more understanding, caring, compassionate treatment of female offenders. I could be persuaded that many of the report’s recommendations are good ideas. I tend to think that there must be something more constructive that could be done with offenders than simply have them sit in prison, bored to death, doing nothing for months or years. But I have one little problem with the report. This caring, compassionate and understanding approach is for women only.






