SDSU 2 Sexual Harassment on Female Correctional Officers Question Responses
two short discussion for AOJ class …
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Women (POST)
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What barriers do females face with regard to being accepted as police officers? What can be done to address those barriers?
Provide at least 2 references for your post.
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Women Correctional Officers (POST)
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After reading the article in our Module this week about the sexual harassment of female correctional officers, answer the following questions.
1. In general, what type of sexual harassment do female correctional officers face in prisons?
2. Should prison officials be held liable for the sexual harassment of inmates? Why or why not?
3. Female correctional officers have sued prison officials in many cases because they didn’t do enough to protect the officers from harassment by inmates. What have the results been of some of those cases?
4. Some steps are being taken in the right direction as a result of the legal cases. What changes have occurred in some prisons?
5. What else should prison officials do to protect female officers, if anything?
