ONLY ROUGH, UGLY MEN NEED APPLY

By Ima Schmuck

The Unconventional Gazette
April 24, 2013

BALTIMORE, Maryland -- 13 female correctional officers at the Baltimore City Detention Center were charged Tuesday with allowing gang members of the Black Guerilla Family to smuggle drugs and cell phones into the prison. One inmate gang leader fathered five children with four of the arrested correctional officers. That probably explains why Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein told the Washington Post that “Correctional officers were in bed with BGF inmates.”

State Senator Lisa A. Gladden, D-Baltimore, told the Post that the large percentage of female correctional officers at the detention center contributed to the problem. “A lot of times, they become smitten with the inmates. [The inmates] talk really sweet and say really nice things, and the CO’s fall for them. You need to have a bunch of rough, ugly men.”

Gloria Steinem, a leading American feminist, told The Unconventional Gazette, that the indictments of Maryland women correctional officers was a sexist plot on the part of old guard remnants in the U.S. Justice department. “Does anyone really believe that women would be so foolish as to let a convict impregnate them?” asked Steinem. “Of course not! I hereby call on Congress to investigate the Justice Department for singling out and besmirching the reputation of women correctional officers.” She also accused Sen. Gladden of betraying the women’s movement.

Terry O'Neill, president of the 550,000 member National Organization for Women (NOW), was incensed that the Justice Department publicized the indictment of hard working women prison guards on spurious charges of sexual misconduct brought on by a lying bunch of no good rotten male convicts. “These false charges are a plot to set back the hard won victories of NOW over the past 40 years.” She added, “I won’t dignify Sen. Gladden’s sexist remarks with a response.”

Gloria Allred, the prominent civil rights attorney, told The Unconventional Gazette that she will represent the 13 female correctional officer pro bono. “These poor women did not ask me to represent them ….. I am doing this on my own. Remember, these women are innocent until proven guilty. I intend to show that the government entrapped these women. Why did it take more than two years of investigations to bring this case to fruition? Because the government set out from the start to screw these poor women.”

Rabbi Elchonon Lisbon of Congregation Ohel Levi Yitzchak / Bais Lubavitch told The Baltimore Sun: “I am not surprised at these indictments. Women have no business working in prisons or as police officers. A woman’s place is in the bedroom and the kitchen. A woman’s job is to serve her husband and to bear and raise their children ….. not to go out and do the work of men.”

Howie Katz, a blogger on PACOVILLA Corrections blog, told The Unconventional Gazette that he was once excoriated by dozens of women correctional officers, and a few male officers, for questioning the use of women as police patrol officers [Are Women Really Suitable For Police Patrol Work? / PACOVILLA Corrections blog / October 9, 2010]. “Only fellow blogger Bob Walsh had the courage to face that hysterical female onslaught by defending what I said. Now, with the arrest of these 13 women, I feel vindicated.”