UNIT C - Blog 21

When looking at the website for the National Association for Female Correctional and also what Britton had to say at the end of chapter seven in the book At Work In The Iron Cage, i noticed a few similarities. Britton focuses on change as a whole such as making the workplace a better environment based on equality within gender and race. Britton feels that everybody deserves proper training and resources when it comes to prison jobs, Britton feels that everybody should be trained on anything and everything that relates to this field, for example men need to be trained on women prisons and problems that can arise with female inmates and officers and that women should be trained on men prisons and what male officers and inmates face on a daily basis. Proper and equal training is what is needed to have a successful work environment because if any employee is unaware of a certain situation then they can be in great danger because they won't know what to do. On the website for the National Association for Female Correctional this organization mainly focuses on sexual assault and how this should be tackled. They want officers to be punished when they rape another female officer or when they know of a rape but fail to notify anybody about it. It seems like sexual assault is a huge factor with woman officers after I read a few things on this website and it's important that his is addressed as soon as possible because sexual assault is a serious issue. The last issue they said they wanted to accomplish was a grant for women to have access to safety equipment and to be trained on it so they can defend themselves properly. This made me nervous because it seems like there are women on the force that aren't capable of getting access to safety and self defense equipment which seems like something that should be mandatory in a police type job. With Britton and the website these seem like real issues that need to be tackled immediately so that women can feel safe in their own workplace and be equipped and trained for anything possible.