‘Alternative’ to women’s prisons?

Question by I’m not sexy again – bwaaaa: ‘Alternative’ to women’s prisons?
Is this just *more* sexism (i.e. women need help / men need punishment)?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20071203/tuk-alternative-to-women-s-prisons-6323e80_1.html

A new approach to punishing women criminals could save millions of pounds a year, it has been claimed.
Findings from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the Prison Reform Trust said crimes could also be prevented by establishing a network of support and supervision centres.
As alternatives to jails they would help women offenders address the root causes of their offending, the interim findings suggested, by offering mental health treatment, help with drug and alcohol problems and advice on debt

Men don’t need any help of course…
(the ‘last line’ of above was written tongue in cheek – sarcasm).

You’ve all heard of the times when blacks (or, to be a PC fruitjob ‘people of colour’ because the word ‘black’ must be faaaar too offensensive to use nowadays, right?) had to drink out of different water fountains to whites?
Well, it ain’t gonna be long and we’ll be seeing history repeating itself – one fountain for women and one for men. And all this under the guise of ‘equality’.

“What are you moaning about? You have *a* fountain, don’t you? Stop ‘whining’…” will be the response.

Best answer:

Answer by Moo
I don’t disagree with at least trying that idea out.

However, I don’t agree with your last statement

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