Gender Differences In Prisons

The source is about transgender inmates specifically male to female (FTM) in the prison system and the ways in which to go about protecting them from victimization and housing arrangements while facing this dilemma of difference (Sumner and Sexton 2016). The article compares and contrast using a universal approach or a difference approach which may involve a greater sense of action and fulfillment necessary to rectify the injustices of the transgender minority (Sumner and Sexton 2016). The author demonstrates these dilemmas, and discusses how the prison system and structures based around them, faces a level of inconsistencies on how to face and create and equal solution to this dilemma of difference and how it can overtly effect the arching
objectives of the system, to protect all inmates from victimization and unfair treatment (Sumner and Sexton 2016). In interviewing both prisoners and inmate officials, there seemed to be a lack of consensus on how and when it is appropriate to define someone by the terms of being transgender.
The findings overall concluded with inmate officials feeling like they satisfied the requirements of indifference. They felt like everyone was being treated equally because those who fitted the z-code meant they believed they would violate prison laws of no sexual intercourse (Sumner and Sexton 2016). In a consensus, transgender inmates simply want to be treated equally to a hetero-sexual male, if they cannot be treated with the requirements they need in their transitions because the z-code is used for the worst criminal offenses, people with the z-code are segregated from the general population (Sumner and Sexton 2016). The author says that these perspectives resonate the idea that looking at the law in a more modern perspective can change the way we perceive the dilemma of indifference (Sumner and Sexton 2016). This source connects to my proposed research by…