I can't comment on UK ethnic/race crime rates, but I do know that Black women in my country are incarcerated at a rate far higher than white women, black men or white men. And a majority of them are in for non-violent offenses, like fraud or drugs (women overall only commit about 14% of violent crime, 2% sexual assault). White women get shorter sentences for the same crimes and there is evidence to show women offend at similar rates when controlled for state of residence, poverty, age, head of household and exposure to crime. Black women also face high rates of intimate partner violence, rape, and homicide (it's even higher for Native girls).
So looking at incarceration rates clearly shows racism AND sexism towards Black women plays a big role. It does NOT show that Black women have any greater propensity to crime than any other woman.
Which means that black women in the US are going to be disproportionately affected by male rapists being placed in women's prisons.
And the same people rooting to put rapists in women's prisons have the cheek to chant Black Lives Matter.
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Headline: DOC employee reports men are claiming to be women to transfer prisons
A half dozen men have been transferred to theWashington Correctional Center for Woman, according to an employee at the facility.
The concern among staff and inmates is a risk of sexual assault. The employee cites a recent incident in which an inmate from a male facility raped a female in the women’s prison upon arrival. The transferred inmate, according to the employee, is incarcerated for a sex offense and has “fully functional male genitalia, a history of violence and sexual depravity in the community, and has been found guilty of sexual assault against other inmates while housed in the men’s facilities.”
“He is a proven sexual predator, having committed multiple crimes against women, yet the State of Washington had no problem moving him into a women’s facility and housing him with the most vulnerable in our population (our mental health unit),” the employee wrote.
“Word of the incident has inevitably traveled throughout the facility, causing much concern amongst both inmates and staff,” the employee said. “It demonstrated the state’s willingness to put the most vulnerable of our population in harm’s way, by locking them in a cell with a proven predator, with zero accountability or repercussions for the perpetrator.”
Among the inmates transferred to the women’s facility is Donna Perry, formerly known as Douglas Perry, who was convicted for killing three sex workers. Before being charged, Perryreportedly went to Thailandfor gender reassignment surgery. Prosecutors during the trial claimed that Perry had undergone the surgery to avoid suspicion for the killings.
Also recently transferred in was Hobby Bingham, now known as Princess Zoee Marie Andromeda Love, whowas convictedfor having sex with a 12-year-old girl. Bingham is alleged by the anonymous employee to have had sex with a female inmate at the women’s facility.
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