The course material explains that in the training there is an exasperation of potential violence. Telling of “war stories” perpetuate the fear of prisons that media help create. In training, while some people quit after viewing a violent training film, the men were less likely to admit it was because of potential violence. These inflated accounts of violence emphasize the masculinity of the job.
“Contingency” violence poses resistance to hiring women for correctional officers because it exemplifies how something may go “violently wrong”.
Addressing situations, like sexual harassment, that men don’t encounter as often may seem sexist since curriculum is supposedly neutral.
Some women feel a need to have a female prison guard address specific problems women officers have. Guards in female prisons often times feel unprepared for dealing with women.
Men and women’s prisons differ in many ways. In particular are the relationship that the inmate form with each other. In male prisons, the men feel a need to band together, for protection, while in women prisons they tend to couple off and form “families”. Women seem to have a stronger need for family and intimate relationship as discussed in “Lock-up; Inside North Carolina Women’s Prison: NBC News Special”. Also women are allowed certain items in prison that men are not allowed such at knitting needles and toiletry items.
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