This attitude is the true anti-politics that has cut Mother Jones off from real engagement, and fostered the irrelevancy she bemoans. It is cynical and destructive, a defense against doubt masked as superior wisdom. I hope it's not too late for her to learn a different, more professional style. Siegal documents incidents of women who are abused while in jail and indicts the whole corrections system for this. Society at large has known this, and few ever speak up.
Most people think of a jail as a place where people are locked in little cages.
It is a jungle. Many people think that, since these are criminals, they get what they deserve. Women only need love and understanding to become better citizens. This thinking is what leads to women's prisons without lock-down facilities or proper emergency procedures. Women don't deserve this treatment, but men don't either.