Women Incarcerated And Racial Discrimination And Crime
| Racial discrimination could be described as a discernment of qualities and rejection of individuals or a group of people belonging to a particular race. According to the law, any sorts of discrimination and humiliation based on race and color of an individual is strictly prohibited. |
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Individuals violating this law can be seriously punished that includes imposing fine and imprisonment. Racial discrimination is primarily based on race, gender, religion, nationality, social class, caste, age and social status. Inspite of all these laws, some sorts of discrimination happens in one or the other corner of the globe. One such instance is the racial discrimination of women in prisons.
As per the amnesty records, women who have been imprisoned are mostly first-time offenders involved in crimes including theft, drug trafficking and property offences. Only 2-9 percent of overall prison population constitute of women. Most of the women involved in crime are poverty stricken and often come from a socially disadvantaged background. Apart from that, women in prison are usually minorities belonging to different linguistic patterns, culture and have varied ethnic origin. There are numerous reports where women prisoners were sexually harassed by prison guards and experience racial discrimination.
However, the rate of discrimination differs with the race. African-Americans are eight times more likely to be incarcerated than Caucasian women. While Hispanics and Asians are six times more likely to get imprisonment, the rate of incarceration for Latino women is four percent.
Racial abuse and sexual assault on women is a kind of human rights violation that has been prohibited under several laws and treaties. It is the responsibility of the government to safeguard the interests of prisoners, particularly women who are incarcerated.
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