Category Archives: women ex-offenders
March 21, 2011 · 9:00 am
Reentry updates: prison reform, women ex-offenders and the perils of Facebook
There’s a lot going on in the justice/reentry arena these days. Here’s a quick update of what I’ve been following:
Justice reform: will we or won’t we?
Last month, I wrote about Senator Jim Webb’s newly updated prison reform bill . Alas, soon after, Webb announced he wouldn’t be running for a second term. Which leaves me wondering: will a combination of the Senator’s lame duck status and Congress’ need to focus on more pressing issues (wars, spending cuts, etc.). push national justice reform again to the back burner?
In addition, Ray Hill’s the Prison Show in Houston will be putting some artistic emphasis behind the need for change in our justice system when he hosts the Prison Reform Film Festival next month.
Women’s issues
I’ve worked almost exclusively with female offenders over the past couple of years. So I know their experiences in the justice system are very different than those of men, who make up the majority of offenders. So I was happy to see NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi Show devote a segment recently to the unique challenges women face in terms of serving sentences and reentrying society . There was also an interesting piece on Russian prison reforms are helping women.
Facebook Follies
In my employment skills classes I caution students to be careful about the personal information they share on sites like Facebook or Myspace. It’s standard procedure for many employers to turn to social networking pages or places like Twitter to find out more about a job candidate or who they’re hanging out with. Everyone’s heard stories about how ill-advised boasts or drunken photos have cost people jobs .
Nor are employers or job recruiters the only people who might be looking at what you post. As a recent article suggests supervision officers may soon find it easy to track someone’s post-release behavior online. including whether he or she is still associating with criminals. This particular article even goes so far as to suggest how probation and parole officers might document what they find in order to have evidence in a revocation hearing.
Another reason it might be worth keeping an eye on your site, and what you and others post there.
woman
"The meaning of what it is to be a woman has never been more open-ended and therefore more filled with anxiety" [Nancy Friday What is a Real Woman? ]
"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size" [Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own ]
"The individual woman is required. a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition" [Jeannette Rankin]
"When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?" [Edith Evans]
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a woman want?'" [Sigmund Freud]
"A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle" [Edna Ferber]
"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same" [Iris Murdoch The Red and the Green ]
"Fickle and changeable always is woman" [Virgil Aeneid ]
"A man is as old as he's feeling,"
"A woman as old as she looks" [Mortimer Collins The Unknown Quantity ]
"Men play the game, women know the score" [Roger Woddis]
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in" [Anita Brookner]
"One is not born a woman; one becomes one" [Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex ]
"Woman was God's second blunder" [Friedrich Nietzsche Der Antichrist ]
"Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football" [Fran Lebowitz Metropolitan Life ]
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript" [Sir Richard Steele The Spectator ]
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" [attributed to Gloria Steinem]
"Frailty, thy name is woman!" [William Shakespeare Hamlet ]
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can" [Jane Austen Northanger Abbey ]
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not" [Colette]
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult" [Charlotte Whitton]
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his" [Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest ]
"When women go wrong, men go right after them" [Mae West]
"Women - one half of the human race at least - care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry" [Walter Bagehot The English Constitution ]
"Women can't forgive failure" [Anton Chekhov The Seagull ]
"Women are really much nicer than men: no wonder we like them" [Kingsley Amis A Bookshop Idyll ]
"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke" [Gloria Steinem Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions ]
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature" [Lawrence Durrell Justine ]
"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?" [Mary Astell Some Reflections upon Marriage ]
"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything" [Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac ]
"O fairest of creation, last and best"
"Of all God's works" [John Milton Paradise Lost ]
Proverbs
"A woman's place is in the home"
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
"A woman's work is never done"
No comments:
Post a Comment