There should be exactly zero male guards in a women's jail.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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Playing devil's advocate. What would your solution be if they couldn't hire enough female guards?
How about we put fewer people in prison?
That would be wonderful. I just don't know how we make that happen.
Hire more female guards.
There is no way there wouldn't be enough unemployed or underpaid women who wouldn't work in a women's jail as a guard, if for no other reason than the pay is far better than working at some burger joint for peanuts.
Those jobs exist right now though. There's a national shortage of corrections officers. What's keeping women from those jobs right now?
Women can't (and shouldn't) work as guards in male prisons ... so that's part of the problem.
The other part is America's whole gd judicial system is a clusterfuck, from manditory sentencing to outrageous bail, from falling-down jails to privatization of said prisons.
The whole system needs to get pulled into the 21st century.
So yes, you're right, there is a problem with staffing levels. But to keep on-keeping on without radically changing anything/everything is stupid ... and insane.
Women 100% work in men's prisons. One of the things that led to women getting hired in men's prisons was a shortage of men who wanted to work as a prison guard.
I'd rather kill myself than be a prison guard.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, a lot of former prison guards feel the same
I bet he will be getting all the sex abuse he can handle where he's going