University of Chicago Professor: "We Should Stop Putting Women in Jail. For Anything."

Pundit Press ^ | 11/7/14 | Aurelius

[therightliveswithus]

Women should never go to jail, no matter what the crime, be it murder, assault, illicit drug dealing, or anything else. That is the idea of Patricia O’Brien, an associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at University of Illinois at Chicago.

In an article in the Washington Post entitled, “We should stop putting women in jail. For anything,” O’Brien made the case that women should never, under any circumstances, go to prison.

O’Brien asked questions such as, “What purpose is served by subjecting the most disempowered, abused and nonviolent women to the perpetually negative environment of prisons?”

Sending females to prison, O’Brien argued, doesn’t help anything. People and children rely on women, she wrote, much more than men. On top of that, “Efforts to make prison “work” for women have only perpetuated the growth of the prison industrial complex.”

What should be done with women who commit crimes? “In Britain,” O’Brien explains, “advocates propose community sentences for nonviolent offenders and housing violent offenders in small custodial centers near their families.”

And “there is evidence that these approaches can work in the United States.”

[Arm_Bears]

But . . . but . . . Women are equal to men . . .

[Maceman]

Moe proof that going to college these days just makes you stupider.

[VanDeKoik]

Oh the anti-feminists on YouTube are going to have a field day with this dingbat!

[Pearls Before Swine]

If we do that, only blacks, other minorities, and children will go to jail for crimes. Disparate impact!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

“We should stop putting women in jail. For anything,”

I wonder if Patti thinks this applies to women who protest in front of abortion clinics, or who vote Republican.

[SkyDancer]

Or in the latest story about that 3yo kid who was tortured and killed.

[ealgeone]

so if a woman takes out el presidente....no jail??

[NautiNurse]

Patricia O’Brien, an associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Another anecdote to support the old adage: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

[Maine Mariner]

A correction: The University of Chicago is not the University of Illinois, Chicago. Milton Friedman taught at the University of Chicago a private university; Bill Ayres taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago

[ShadowAce]

...the growth of the prison industrial complex.

If you hate something, just add "industrial complex" to the end of it, and people flock to your side.

[Paladin2]

It seemed to work wonders for Martha Stewart.

[rarestia]

It boggles my mind how liberals think. How much canned air does one have to huff to become this retarded?

[Resettozero]

University of Chicago Professor: "We Should Stop Putting Women in Jail. For Anything."

Just because their organs aren't on the outside? (Thanks Samantha Carter.)

[OneWingedShark]

Oh the anti-feminists on YouTube are going to have a field day with this dingbat!

It'll probably be pretty good watching.

[jwalsh07]

Nothing like equality under the law.

[CrazyIvan]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3224482/posts

So throw this guy in for life and his adorable sweetheart can come live with you prof?

[Dr. Sivana]

The University of Illinois at Chicago is NOT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

[JohnBrowdie]

wait. what about trannies and “women in men’s bodies”?

[Resettozero]

How much canned air does one have to huff to become this retarded?

You got it wrong. They're SO smart at Chicago that they have to work very very much and diligently apply themselves to the task in order to write so many stupid things in any article. It takes real talent.