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I haven’t even questioned this before. It segregating on gender is just as ridiculous as segregating on height, color or religion etc.
It's reality, what are you people talking about. Let's just commingle violent male offenders with women because it's the right thing to do. I see women choose the bear all the time, and you're like "desegregate prisons!" Good idea.
No they're not saying desegregate prisons, they're saying that the assumptive requirement of prison desegregation points to how low the bar is for keeping prisoners safe.
Plenty of rape happens in male-only prisons and it doesn't even make the news. A significant portion of society believes that the threat of prison rape is an acceptable part of the punishment.
It would make more sense to segregate based on the nature of the crime, keep the sex offenders in specialised institutions away from less serious crimes
It doesn't make the news because literally everyone knows to the extent vulgar jokes about it like "don't drop the soap," are normalized.
It's less about people knowing about the violence (and sexual violence especially) that happens in prisons, but rather there is a collective tacit acknowledgement that these things are okay — that the violence is effectively just part of the punishment of prison.
Which is a pretty fucked up stance, but because it's the default, unspoken and unchallenged assumption, then of course we're not going to hear about this stuff on the news.