blog 21

Holy Moly, so after reading their legislation a lot of it sounds like it shouldn’t need to be written out it should just be a priority. Like zero tolerance of rape and sexual harassment of female officers, it is so sad to see a ‘gender neutral’ work place that allows this to happen enough that a organization needs to push for it. Violence towards females is not widely accepted in the real work and rapist go to prison (not as often as they should) so why is it ok that a correctional facility is allowing such atrocities to happen to their own employees?
Training should be number one priority for all officers’ not just new ones. Continuing education should be mandated for officers to keep themselves safe learn how to deal with situations violent and non violent alike, and how to treat females co workers, as well as how to deal with inmates of both sexes. By making procedures in training less gender neutral or geared towards males it would bring female officers and inmates more onto the surface and more noticeable. The more females are recognized in the system the more likely they will be such an anomaly and they will not be penalized for being a minority as often. Workers that are being penalized for their race or gender are effected in several ways due to these reason, their emotional stability and stress levels are higher because they can’t make as much money as they need to. They have to see how their white co workers are treated as compared to how they are and this brings on a poor sense of self worth. Their mental health is compromised as well as their physical well being if their co workers do not see them as being as important. If a predominant officer sees another as less then there isn’t much doubt that they will not come to their aid in a violent situation.Female officers are still a marginal but their numbers (As well as female inmates) are growing rapidly. More women are finding themselves outside of traditional roles in the work place and that is a fact that needs to be accepted and brought up more.