UNIT C: Blog 20

BLOG 20:


The prisoner chief. a women, who was described in two different ways: one as women that some think can not handle her situation and a women as strict and is right for the job because she got the hostage out alive. A only draw out event that resulted in the tower being taken. A women, Lois, was held for 15 days treated as inhuman, making her good to the bathroom in from of him, asking he r if she was ready to die and giving her hope just so he could take it away.

The hostage situation was a violent, horrible, and demeaning act of rage and hate that describes how Britton talks about these events in the book. In these types of situation the person taking the person treats them as an animal making them do things that they would never do. Always in this situation the person that in taken hostage will have to leave with these moments for the rest of their lives. These people will be haunted by what these people did or them and will want need for them to pay for it. Lois said going to court was her therapy and wanted and she needed him to pay for what he did to her. These 15 days will never be forgotten and changed her for the rest of her life. It hurt her so much that she can not even talk about it anymore because it brings up all of the emotions.

A prison is a total institution. This means that the people there are the prisoners are there on a involuntary basis. They are being help their for a crime or some degree that they committed. This total institution in question is the Lewis Prison located in Arizona. Some problems that were being faced were that they couldn't get the phones to work from one part of the prison to the other, they didn't have a layout of the tower,they did know how to break the glass in order to get a "kill shot" and they could not see or hear anything that was going on inside of the tower.

This hostage situation relates and describes some typical scenarios that are layout for us in Britton. In the hostage situation Lois was raped, beaten, and almost pushed to the edge of killing herself within the 15 days that she spend in the tower. The person that held her there was horrible, revengeful, and acting out of rage and hate. As described in the book and information from our readings prison life and situations play out all in the same way. In prisons women are sexually assaulted, their is the element of violence, and unsafely. One great thing that stands out is the administrator. In 1995 there were no top administrators that were female and our chief in Arizona is now female.

Prisons are gendered organizations because of their structures, functions, how they were built, the hours, what they have to deal with in an every day situation. Women have been breaking their way into this field of correctional officers for some time now, but men in this field wills till look at them the same. some women will turn down opportunities because of their family and will have juggling and crossing over from the private to the personal because the hard essential working two Jobs. Women are doing more, but yet they are not given the respect the deserve. The structuring of the correctional officers position is masculine and while women are breaking into this field and doing the same things the are still help with caution.

The occupation of a correctional officers is an engendered occupation. This is an occupation that is still going through transitions and changes. Women are breaking into this field, are successful, but are still looked at differently than their male counterparts. The process is a slow. Women are still having to prove themselves an get them same opportunities and rules as the males.