AT Oz Conservative, Mark Richardson writes about a Swedish female prison guard who was beaten to death by an inmate. In some Swedish prisons, the majority of the guards are women. On the face of it, this seems stupid and dangerous. However, a reader who operates detention centers for adolescent male offenders in this country said in a previous discussion here that male inmates tended to be less violent when guarded by an all-female staff. He wrote:

We in fact see less violence to the female staff but I personally don’t think it has anything to do with communication but rather is due to the fact that the patients (inmates) relate better to women as this has been their experience. Moreover, many of them view the women staff as potential sex partners and/or someone they can manipulate and subsequently they are not often overtly aggressive.

He also said women guards have more difficulty handling the stress of the job.

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