A government watchdog has found a “substantial likelihood” that the federal Bureau of Prisons committed wrongdoing when it ignored complaints and failed to address asbestos and mold contamination at a federal women’s prison in California.
and i want to major sure that i also talk with the department of corrections officials to find out what do they need as well. that s where i went. i am a former homeless shelter director. and i have been a prisoner ministry leader for two years. i went to men s prison every wednesday 6:00. i gave the message of hope. and it blessed me to bless them. so, i was at bride s facility out in chesapeake. you might see this little thing that they made for me. they re learning so that they can be better than when they went in. and so they are learning electrical skills, plumbing skills. they are learning auto cad. they are learning so many different things. if they don t have a g.e.d. and they want a g.e.d., they can get it. you know, we need to encourage more of this. why? because we don t want them to leave the same way that they cam in. we want them to be productive
so, you asked me what the problems were, and there are a range of problems but if we focus on spaces where women get undressed, are vulnerable to sexual assault, and sexual assault by males is a problem for women in those spaces, somebody who has had absolutely no physical alteration, who looks male, you know, and we are hard wired, pretty much, to be able to sex people by sight, that s the only way means we have. a male in those spaces when the policies say yes, you may be there, then any male can be in those spaces, because they could all say, i have an identity that is of a woman so we have, at the moment, in britain, we have males in women s prison, purely on the basis of self id, not because they legally changed their sex, not because they had hormones or surgery, so any male effectively can say they have this identity, and that causes a massive problem in terms of reducing safeguarding for women, who are vulnerable to sexual assault. i understand the point in theory, bu
yeah, there s no legal difference between the two, because you don t need surgery to get. to self identify in a particular way, or even to get a gender recognition certificate in this country. but i m saying that there s a practical difference, because. so, you asked me what the problems were, and there are a range of problems but if we focus on spaces where women get undressed, are vulnerable to sexual assault, and sexual assault by males is a problem for women in those spaces, somebody who has had absolutely no physical alteration, who looks male, you know, and we are hard wired, pretty much, to be able to sex people by sight, that s the only means we have. a male in those spaces when the policies say yes, you may be there, then any male can be in those spaces, because they could all say, i have an identity that is of a woman so we have, at the moment, in britain, we have males in women s prison, purely
yeah, there s no legal difference between the two, because you don t need surgery to get. to self identify in a particular way, or even to get a gender recognition certificate in this country. but i m saying that there s a practical difference, because. so, you asked me what the problems were, and there are a range of problems but if we focus on spaces where women get undressed, are vulnerable to sexual assault, and sexual assault by males is a problem for women in those spaces, somebody who has had absolutely no physical alteration, who looks male, you know, and we are hard wired, pretty much, to be able to sex people by sight, that s the only means we have. a male in those spaces when the policies say yes, you may be there, then any male can be in those spaces, because they could all say, i have an identity that is of a woman so we have, at the moment, in britain, we have males in women s prison, purely on the basis of self id, not because they legally changed their sex, no