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Within living memory male guards were banned from women's prisons, at least in the US. But that seemingly rational precaution was found to be discriminatory. So now male guards must be hired for women's prisons, despite the substantial incidence of sexual abuse that results. And women have to hired to guard men's prisons, where they are often sexually harassed or assaulted, and on occasion "fall in love" with some charming sociopath, which creates obvious security problems.

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