Article:
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/16/watchdog-group-accuses-amy-coney-barrett-of-unconscionable-cruelty-in-teen-rape-case/
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I think that this might be the kind of ruling that is issued by people who have never been arrested, never been mental patients, never been homeless, who do not personally know institutional life.
These places are not harsher schools. The majority of employees are uneducated and many of them are vicious. The power difference is palpable and continuously exploited, even if only on an emotional level every day. These are dehumanizing environments. Attempts to report incidents are more futile and more dangerous by degree of potential retaliation the farther down the ladder you go in terms of societal stigma.
Someone who knows the helplessness and the fear could not have made this decision for this case.
Unfortunately, I think that there are women who follow the opinions of privileged men when they follow in the footsteps of those men and gain power. It's understandable that their perspective is limited; they couldn't have gotten to where they are if they had had the experiences that would help them to make more empathetic decisions. The system which insists upon an unblemished life record for advancement also precludes arbitrators from always knowing what the hell they're talking about.
The system insists that women have perfect life records. Men are given much less restrictive parameters. That's probably why not only the judicial system but every system that has always been male-dominated is far more inclined to give men who commit transgressions the benefit of a doubt than it is to consider women's transgressions as not being permanently indicative of their characters.
