Prison as Therapeutic Community

I feel that we need an alternative to prison to prevent self injury and reduces the stress which causes such behavior.

It involves a ghost town and miles of fencing though. It might cost up to a billion dollars including the doctor, the staff and the business licenses.

Why not a therapeutic community in the sticks?

To prevent abuse of trust by staff, reward whistle-blowing.

To prevent prison escapes, all women make and sell products and services. If someone does escape, then it would be to avoid being a productive member of that community. Let the RCMP handle them.

Why it won't work: it "rewards" crime with a job opportunity.

This is what needs to be done to prevent self harm: women's prisons should not be punitive forms of rehabilitation of criminals. It needs to be viewed as a therapeutic community.

Otherwise, the middle management have lost the vision of what prison ought to be.

The Marginalization of Women of Color

Women are being marginalized around the world, and especially women of color.

While this blog post is not a comprehensive look at the problem, I am posting it to show the ease with which I can find proof to back up the marginalization of women of color.

With the recent spate of rapes in India. sexism is rife in India, the world's biggest democracy.

At the same time, women of color are oppressed (including Muslim women. This includes the Pakistan girl, Malala Yousufzai, shot and now living in the UK, the hundreds of women in Afghanistan who not only have to watch out for the Taleban but also their husbands due to cultural clash between tradition and Islam, which in itself is not oppressive to women.

Now before I finish this blog post, I'm going to add all the evidence to back up my claim that women are being marginalized around the world.

India gang rape (including commentaries)

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/13/world/asia/india-new-gang-rape/index.html
http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-01-15/padma-lakshmi-responds-to-gang-rapes-in-india/
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/01/31/delhi-rape-activists-education-campaign-idINDEE90U02720130131?feedType=RSS&feedName=globalCoverage2

Pakistan girl, Malala Yousufzai, shot and now living in UK

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/04/malala-pakistan-girl-released.html
http://news.yahoo.com/pakistani-girl-shot-taliban-skull-reconstructed-103807211.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Pakistani+girl+Malala+shot+Taliban+released+hospital/7775637/story.html

Afghani women oppressed by Taleban and husbands

http://www.fazeteen.com/issue01/afghan_women.html
http://newcommave.com/relationship-taliban-and-afghan-women
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=126628&page=1

I apologize for not writing about the oppression of women in developed nations. It's less overt and is concentrated around economic equity between men and women in the workplace. As well, I admit to ignorance about the marginalization of women of color in developed nations, because on the whole, the marginalization isn't as bad as in other parts of the world.

First of all, the marginalization of aboriginal women in Canada has been well documented.

http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/community-politics/marginalization-of-aboriginal-women.html