The Ladies Discussion Questions

Prison does that by taking people who have committed a crime, sentencing them, and then gives them activities to help prevent them from committing future crimes. Prisoners need to be given the tools to succeed to be able to make a difference in their lives, but in Bitch Planet they are lacking these tools. Prison’s are meant to keep the public safe, but removing anyone who could possibly cause harm to innocent people. In Bitch Planet, these women are not being given the proper tools to change they are just being mismanaged and violent with them. The guards always turn into violence whenever the inmates act out, which if it’s used in self defense it’s fine, but they way it’s being used is just abuse towards inmates.

Not many prison facilities provide educational and vocational training, leaving women unprepared to successfully transition to the community following their release.

The film is centered on a group known as the Women’s Army. It is a group comprised of women who seek to eradicate the ever-present inequalities between males and females. They end up going on marches, networking with different radio shows and meeting together in order to find ways to educate women and the general public about the hypocritical nature of the government and its role in the social and economic status of women. In the beginning of the film we see men catcalling women as they walk down the street, harassing them while riding the subways, and even attempting to rape them in broad daylight. This highlights the impact of societies ideology about gender

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many European women were still struggling for basic rights such as choosing who they married, obtaining full citizenship and having the right to vote. Because so many women were fighting for the same thing, many formed groups or alliances that were designed to fight against the male-driven political parties that wanted to deny them their rights. As the “woman question” became a bigger deal in politics and society, people began to form stronger opinions about whether or not they thought women should be allowed to vote. The eighteenth century in Europe began a revolution on the topic of women’s suffrage. An overwhelming amount of feminist groups argued for women’s suffrage and fought against

Women who are incarcerated face a double standard. Society are quick to assume that a woman who has committed a crime has no remorse than a men when they have committed the same crime. They also can face a harsher punishment than men 's. In the book couldn 't keep it to myself, women speak about their crimes, and the reasoning of why they committed the crime. In my opinion I believe these women can be forgiven depending on how serious their crime is, thus, i also believe they are going to learn from their mistakes and turn it into something productive.

Male prisoners also continue to make up the majority of the prison population. However, women prisoner rates have been on the rise and have exceeded that of male growth rates since 1995. In fact, due to the increase of the women prison population, various issues have arisen which require women to be treated differently from men. Such issues correctional facility’s face because of this increase include program delivery, housing conditions, medical care, staffing, and security (American Corrections, 2016). These problems are in part due to the different social and economic differences women are faced with in prison and while preparing for their release back to society.

The reason is that females were considered to be good candidates for rehabilitation. The suggestion is that female offenders were viewed as less dangerous than male offenders. Overtime, gender has led to women being protected and punished. The earlier notion of women-centeredness of women’s prisons no longer exists. There is more emphasis on a criminal being a criminal. At the same time, males still suffer harsher penalties compared to females within the criminal justice system.

Male and female prisons differ in some ways, but one thing that is the same is that the inmates suffer from depression, stress, and anxiety each day for the rest of their lives. It is hard to imagine what they face through everyday incarcerated or not. When prisoners are in jail, they have to deal with drama believe it or not. They might form groups determined by race and talk negative things about each other or think one race is better than another. Women prisons do this more often than men prisons. An example from the show Orange is the New Black of prison drama is when a prisoner stole a hand mirror from another prisoner. It is stupid things like that. They have to deal with the crappy food, crappy roommates if they can have one, and not being able to have the freedom. They have strict rules on when they can have visitors and when they can take a phone call. If you committed a crime that is super bad, then you do not get these privileges. When there time is up, they have to worry about where to go, finding a job, family, and more. Some of them come out of there and have no family to help them seek shelter and help them financially. Some just have to live on the streets for a bit until they have some money. It is very difficult to find a stable job with committing a crime on your record. They probably could get hired on at a fast food restaurant or at a factory, but they won’t make much to be

In this society, depending on the crime many people may view women in prison as people who should be kept off the streets, such as thugs, gang members, and women who are drug addicts. A big misunderstanding that people have is that they see them as a lost cause. However, through each of these stories you get to know each person and their life stories

Prison life can be harsh, and time spent in a isolation is even worse. A majority of those in prison spend countless hours in idleness. It would be much better if they used that time to reeducate themselves for a productive life on the outside. Some of the prisoners have serious emotional and mental problems that are never addressed and it is illogical to not attempt to correct these problems before they are released.

Movie shows the betrayal or unfavorable depiction of the sisterhood, an important concept in feminist ideology, emphasizing that women are bound in a communal oneness. The movie

Ross C. Murfin states that “Cultural criticism seeks to understand the social context in which a given text was written, and under what conditions it was – and is – produced, disseminated, read and used. “In the essay “Crusade against Frost: Frankenstein, polar Ice, and Climate change in 1818,” Siobhan Carrol is able to offer an ecocritical approach of the novel Frankenstein by first giving a look into the social context and conditions in which the novel was written and then interconnecting the literary piece with social issues throughout England in 1818. Carrol starts out the essay by describing some major frequent issues in England’s society during this period of time. According to Carrol at the beginning of the nineteenth century, major debates on climate change were starting to become frequent. John Barrow, the second secretary to the

For centuries the general public have perceived that the deep horrors of the prison system only existed within the majority of incarcerated male inmates. However now due to recent investigations researchers are finding that this is not the case. For a lengthened period of time the female prison system have been given low attention in comparison to male inmates

The film shows the brutality experienced by Suffragettes as they were beaten and arrested and force fed while incarcerated when they refused to eat.

Prisons should be about teaching someone how to live a normal life and give them the tools to do that instead of just letting prisoners leave and not be a better person. One prison guard stated, “IT is not likely that inmates will have a few good years then get back into the crime game but 6/10 inmates will be back within the first year of release,”. This was not just a problem of weather the prison is in the city or the suburbs, but it is how the prisons work and what is being done to help the prisoners move back into the real world as good members of a society. I interviewed a guard at a local prison who wished to stay anonymous “I am beginning to think that these inmates can not be helped. It is a harsh thing to say but it is the truth.When I started this job I had real hope that I would be touching every prisoner's lives for the good of the world but as time went on I learned that these men and women do not leave here as good people”.There are people who devote their lives to changing the prison system but no major change has happened in the last 10 years, things have only gotten worse.My question was to find out why prisoners who