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[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

April Halley, the author of this piece, has done a tremendous amount of work on Canada's policy of allowing men in women's prison.

Halley used to be on Twitter. but might have been banned because Twitter hates women. But if you do searches under "April Halley" you will probably find more of her work.

Also, FEMINIST CURRENT might have some more info on men in women's prisons, but check it out in any case because it's a fantastic online publication.

A lot of the British feminists orgs. have information on this issue. I will post if I find them.

https://quillette.com/2019/10/12/male-bodied-rapists-are-being-imprisoned-with-women-why-do-so-few-people-care/

[–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thank you. One of the things I know I’m up against is “why do you care so much and why should I?” Especially from liberal men. People are having a really hard time coming to terms with the consequences even if they would be sympathetic once they internalized them. People really just can’t believe this is coming out of the Left. They assume that because it is, it must all be a big misunderstanding. Thankfully I’m not especially known as an alarmist or being associated with any particular political movement or ideology, so I am at least not easily dismissed on those bases.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To get men to be empathetic about this issue I sometimes ask men if they would like to be in a jail cell with a man. I love to see the look of horror on their faces...