Unit C Blog #21

On the website for the Association for Female Correctional Officers the issues in which they believe to be of the utmost importance are listed on the pages for legislation. The women of this organization are working hard to make very clear and sure that they have not only equal rights, but also fair access to the legal system in the instance of an emergency. For example, these women are working to improve and reform the laws about rape at a prison facility. The instance of the rape of a female prison officer at a male prison facility, and perhaps even a female facility is a scary reality that these women must worry about every day. They are undergoing a long and strenuous legal process to ensure that they are safer behind the walls of these prisons than they are now, and some of the things that this law would do would be to put the safety of these women officers at a level unseen currently. This law would put the safety of them to new standards and not allow for them to be in situations in which they could get taken advantage of, hurt, raped, or murdered. One of the most important parts to this new piece of legislation involves the idea of detecting this kind of sexual harassing behavior in the inmates and to be able to work on treatments and/or disciplinary actions to penalize this type of behavior for the inmates. The act of sexual harassment involving the female officers at some of these male prisons is utterly absurd and these women should not have to deal with this type of injustice in their everyday work field. We hope that with the push of new legislation that a safer and more comfortable and restrained workplace can be set into place for the brave women who are officers at our prison facilities.