You're absolutely right about holding people accountable. But lets be real, if it was that simple then the system wouldn’t keep growing. Have you forgotten about justice not being for all? You should have seen that with Paris Hilton. Have you forgotten about women being sentenced unfairly? Have you forgotten about rehabilitation being little to nonexistence? Have you forgotten about inmates used as commodities to produce goods and services for the prison system, while behind the walls, but not good enough to get hired when they come out - even by a system that put them in to begin with? Do you think that just license plates are being made? Visit www.pia.ca.gov, the CDCR, Prison Industry Authority, which was Association but they knew they were making an a- - out of the inmates so they replaced it with Authority. This will show you all the things women and men are doing for the Prison Industrial Complex. It’s important to stop lumping everyone in the same box and assuming that their children will come out the same. That’s lack of knowledge.  You should Pick up TIME ON THE INSIDE: Behind The Walls In A Maximum Security Women’s Prison From An Insiders View ─ FMA Publishing ─ August, 2006, and you’ll get a broader view of the system entirely from accountability of the inmate and the penal system.

As for men being valued as less, and unworthy of concern or less likely to behave as a human being, I’m not saying that. Men definitely have their issues that by far need addressing. From an expert on women in prison, I can only stick to what I know needs to be done, and bring those issues to the forefront. Women are often left in the background and with women of all different backgrounds going to jail and prison today and the recidivism rate being 70% within one-year of release. We must look at why.