If you read further, it gets into the "reasons" why a lot of women are there. That's the part that really got me. Women who's husband's or boyfriends or fathers, etc. committed crimes and they got punished for it because of ignorance, or that they wouldn't testify against their husbands.

I'm not saying that prison should be like a vacation. I'm just saying that a woman who's been abused (physically, sexually, emotionally, etc) shouldn't go to prison and then be violated and abused by the staff their. That's what the article is really getting at, in my opinion. The overlooking of women being sexually and physically assaulted in prison by male guards.

In a lot of cases, I really dislike comparisons used for the sake of argument. Just because A is better than B, doesn't mean A is good, or even acceptable.