This from Stuff:

The number of women serving time in New Zealand prisons has jumped by almost one-third in three years and prison staff say the inmates are younger and more violent.
A leading researcher partly blames the media, as young girls grow up trying to mimic the violent "kick-ass" women celebrated in video games and on television.
{Let's just put the blame on other people why don't we?-MT}


Figures released to the Sunday Star-Times show that from 2009 to 2011 the number of female prisoners increased by 27 per cent, from 437 to 555.


Of the 19 prisons in New Zealand, three in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch are specifically for women.


The prisons have a security classification system and three years ago, for the first time, a maximum security category was introduced.
Last year the average female prisoner was serving a three-year sentence for an offence involving violence, drugs, antisocial behaviour, alcohol, dishonesty or their driver's licence.

Around 16 per cent claimed to have gang affiliations, almost two-thirds identified themselves as Maori, 31.5 per cent European, 4.8 per cent Pacific and 3.8 per cent Asian.


The Department of Corrections said many had mental health, drug and alcohol issues and histories of abuse and trauma.
{So they know a good social worker that told them that they were abused by a MAN-MT}
Typically they were also unemployed and had a low level of education.

Christchurch Women's prison manager Wayne McKnight said a lot had changed in the nearly 11 years he'd been involved with the prison.
"When I first came here we had 37 prisoners and there weren't too many young ones amongst that," he said.
"This year we will have around 85 to 90 prisoners [and] we're getting a lot more younger ones in now for violent offences ... and so a lot more aggravated burglaries, robberies, assaults ... the whole lot."
McKnight said he'd formed the opinion that the shift had something to do with police adopting a zero tolerance approach and more female judges.


"Perhaps a male judge might have been a little more lenient with females," he said.
{Really??!!, you don't say?, I can't believe it, I thought we had equality under the justice cistern here-MT}

Rest of the story can be read HERE.

Let's now all cry some tears for these poor wimmin caught in a nasty Man's world.
Yeah right.