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University of Chicago Professor: "We Should Stop Putting Women in Jail. For Anything."
Pundit Press ^ | 11/7/14 | Aurelius

Posted on 11/07/2014 8:07:49 AM PST by 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.”

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: chicago; education; feminism
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1 posted on 11/07/2014 8:07:49 AM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: therightliveswithus

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


2 posted on 11/07/2014 8:10:05 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


3 posted on 11/07/2014 8:10:19 AM PST by Maceman
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To: therightliveswithus

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


4 posted on 11/07/2014 8:11:43 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: therightliveswithus

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


5 posted on 11/07/2014 8:12:49 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: therightliveswithus
“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.

6 posted on 11/07/2014 8:13:35 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

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


7 posted on 11/07/2014 8:14:31 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Arm_Bears

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


8 posted on 11/07/2014 8:15:01 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: therightliveswithus
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.

9 posted on 11/07/2014 8:15:04 AM PST by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


10 posted on 11/07/2014 8:15:30 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: therightliveswithus
...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.

11 posted on 11/07/2014 8:15:42 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: therightliveswithus

It seemed to work wonders for Martha Stewart.


12 posted on 11/07/2014 8:16:16 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Maceman

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


13 posted on 11/07/2014 8:16:28 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: therightliveswithus
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.)
14 posted on 11/07/2014 8:16:40 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: VanDeKoik
Oh the anti-feminists on YouTube are going to have a field day with this dingbat!

It'll probably be pretty good watching.

15 posted on 11/07/2014 8:17:00 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: therightliveswithus

Nothing like equality under the law.


16 posted on 11/07/2014 8:17:28 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: therightliveswithus

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?


17 posted on 11/07/2014 8:17:35 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: therightliveswithus
The University of Illinois at Chicago is NOT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.
18 posted on 11/07/2014 8:19:07 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: therightliveswithus

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


19 posted on 11/07/2014 8:19:09 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: rarestia
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.
20 posted on 11/07/2014 8:19:31 AM PST by Resettozero
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