GASLIGHT 2 -why the prisons first?

GASLIGHT 2.0 – WHY THE PRISONS FIRST?

A guest post By Sally Hughes

I wrote an essay last year, which Iain Lawson very kindly published.  It was called Abuse By Gaslight.  This essay follows on from that, and if I may, I will cut and paste the initial introduction.

I was a front line Police Officer for 25 years, all of it on the beat.  I retired in 2020.

I’ve been a supporter of Scottish Independence forever.

And like many an Indy supporter, this Gender ‘stuff’ when it first appeared on the radar, at first seemed unconnected, a distraction, divisive even.

Sadly though, and worryingly, the concerns initially raised, proved to be all too real, and in many respects, the tip of the iceberg….

I grew up in Perth, a teenager during the Thatcher recession, where jobs were scarce and hope even scarcer.  I was very fortunate with my family background, so while money was tight, security and parental input was always there.

And my family liked to read.  About everything, science, maths, fiction, wildlife, anything and everything.

At one time, during my terrible teens, I went through a phase of being interested in psychology, and was provided the book called, ‘My Six Convicts’ by Douglas Powell Wilson.

He was a psychiatrist who studied criminals in one of Americas top security prisons.  His book was ground breaking for the time (1952) and was turned into a black and white film.

It’s a long time since I read it, so any inaccuracies are mine.  But from recall, I remember being ironically amused about an incident he documented within the jail.

Sex offenders were automatically segregated from the main prison population, because the other prisoners automatically beat them up and sometimes killed them.  Standard procedure, even way back then.

So there was great confusion when a new sex offender prisoner, when put into the segregated unit, was beaten almost to death by the other sex offenders.

No-one could understand it.  Dr Wilson was tasked with trying to find out their motives.  So he asked them, and they told him.

The beaten up prisoner had been convicted for raping a child under the age of 5, where as the assailants had convictions for raping children over the age of 10.

So, there you have it.  Moral superiority between nonces.  Who knew.

And it’s been playing on my mind now, in relation to Self Id and the placing of convicted male prisoners, including rapists, into the female prison estate.

Gaslighting.  It keeps coming back to Gaslighting.

You see within the prison population there is a pecking order, the armed robber with connections to serious and organised crime, the murderer, the safe breaker, the house breaker, the rapist, the wife batterer, the shop lifter, the drug addict….. and way, way, way down at the very bottom of the list…. The child molester.

At the bottom of the heap until now, that is.

Now it’s the women prisoners… and to add insult to a very real risk of physical injury, the self ID prisoners are going to be in a very good position to get their jollies in the women’s estate.

Not just a promotion, but a bonus on top.

That the female prisoners have to pay for.

Actions speak louder than words, and this action, by its very manifestation, broadcasts to every single male prisoner in the system…. That women don’t matter and that the law won’t protect them, and that female prisoners are so lowly held in esteem, they are to be the captured prey and play things of convicted male perves and nonces.

And all without a single word being spoken or written.  Genius if you stop to think about it.  Still wicked though.

So, while the front page papers pay lip service to in the protest about Violence Against Women, whenever one of the many murders against a female makes national news.  The reality is that actions speak louder than words, and the male prison population, the most violent males in our society, have just been given a very loud message indeed.

Deeply wicked.  And one of the reasons for ‘why the prisons.’

Good job Women Won’t Wheesht.

MY COMMENT

My thanks to Sally for this article. Having enjoyed a long career in the police we would do well to take her concerns and warnings seriously. Self ID opens up real dangers for women, for both those in jail but also for those living their lives in open society.

I am, as always

YOURS FOR SCOTLAND

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