Female Prisons vs. Male Prisons

       Gender inequality exists in many things, even in the prisons. This occurs in a variety of places, even here throughout South Carolina. This problem has existed in previous years, and even though we have came up a little, it still does occur.

       In early years, it was said that inequality existed and it caught the attention of many. First off, females were treated differently because they are one's society view not to be committing crimes and doing deviant acts. They are suppose to act like a"lady" and committing a criminal act will be going "against her very nature as the fairer sex." Due to this they were treated with lesser compassion then men. Men sometimes were expected to act out and commit crimes to display their strength and masculinity.
      Some inequality's that existed in early years was that women received inadequate health care, there were different educational opportunities,  as well as different vocational programs, and even not libraries. Men received these many opportunities and programs and more money was invested into them. Another inequality was that because of the men population in prisons, they were distributed in minimum, medium, and maximum security prisons. Women were all place together, not distributed based on the severity of their crime, which was automatically maximum security prisons. They were not equal due to the large gaps in population between male and females. Did this seem unfair?
      Now, today it is said to be equal when compared. The reason in being is because, the rate for women population in prisons has risen tremendously. Another reason is said that because the severity of their crimes are closely related, but a few a little different such as prostitution and check forgery. Due to this everybody is at fair game and is equally said to be punish and put in the same situations, and have the same benefits.But society knows this isn't the case....

Do you think gender inequality still exists in prisons?