Should prisons be coed?

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So far, women have been fully integrated into the military and police forces. Previously, a lot of people thought that this could never happen.

One huge bastion of gender discrimination continues: gender-specific prisons. Women and men are confined in separate facilities.

I don't think that Feminists have started taking aim at this issue, possibly because they don't perceive any particular advantage (for women) of housing female convicts together with male convicts.

So, what do you think? Should this last bastion of gender-discrimination continue in perpetuity? Or, is it time to imprison men and women together, based upon the radical notion that women are people, too?

Or, is it time to imprison men and women together, based upon the radical notion that women are people, too?

Ok, obviously your being coy, you know that would make prison prison a rape farm...so your not saying that.

Are you saying women don't belong in the military because of the rising rape statistics? What's your point...

I get the feeling your up to no-good....

What exactly would a "coed" prison be? Co-ed means co-educational and the term applies to learning institutions, not penal institutions.

No they should no be coed because there are guys like AP in the world who get excited by the idea of women behind bars, and it would create an incentive for such guys to commit felonies because they would actively seek incarceration.

...The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including elite forces such as Army Rangers and Navy SEALs."

So ran the lead on the CNN story. And why are we doing this? Did the young officers leading troops in battle in Afghanistan and Iraq, returning with casualties, say they needed women to enhance the fighting efficiency of their combat units and the survival rate of their soldiers? Did men from the 101st and 82nd airborne, the Marines, the SEALs and Delta Force petition the Joint Chiefs to put women alongside them in future engagements to make them an even superior force?

No. This decision to put women in combat represents a capitulation of the military brass, a surrender to the spirit of our age, the Pentagon's salute to feminist ideology.

This is not a decision at which soldiers arrived when they studied after-action reports, but the product of an ideology that contradicts human nature, human experience and human history, and declares as dogma that women are just as good at soldiering as men.

But if this were true, rather than merely asserted, would it have taken mankind the thousands of years from Thermopylae to discover it?

...Sending women into combat on equal terms seems also to violate common sense. When they reach maturity, men are bigger, stronger, more aggressive. Thus they commit many times the number of violent crimes and outnumber women in prisons 10 to 1....

...Is it a coincidence that every massacre discussed in our gun debate — from the Texas Tower to the Long Island Railroad, from Columbine to Ft. Hood, from Virginia Tech to Tucson, from Aurora to Newtown — was the work of a crazed male?

...Consider our own history. Would any U.S. admiral say that in any of America's great naval battles — Mobile Bay, Manila Bay, Midway, the Coral Sea — we would done better with some women manning the guns? In the revolutionary and civil wars, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, women were not in combat. Was it invidious discrimination of which we should all be ashamed that women were not fighting alongside the men at Gettysburg, in the Argonne, at Normandy or with "Chesty" Puller's Marines in the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir?...

...Carry this feminist-egalitarian ideology to its logical conclusion, and half of those storming the Omaha and Utah beaches should have been girls and women. Is this not an absurdity?....

...We have had Navy ships become "love boats," with female sailors returning pregnant. ...

An estimated 26,000 personnel of the armed forces were sexually assaulted in 2011, up from 19,000 in 2010. Obama and the Congress are understandably outraged. Such assaults are appalling. But is not the practice of forcing young men and women together in close quarters a contributory factor here? ....

Women have a right to die protecting the country they love, same as you me and everyone else.