Inmate violence in US prisons is actually more common between women than between men, up to three times higher for sexual victimisation. If that is based on size and strength, or merely sex, we should be housing people according to height, weight, and sexuality as well! Where is the protection for gay, lesbian and bisexual, inmates? Trans prisoners, as some intersex prisoners would also, present a binary dilemma. All on the basis that men are more likely to harm, harass, or worse, women more than other men. Separation based upon sex is presumed to aid management, deny sexual privilege, improve safety and risk of sexual and physical violence. Her sister, Mary Marks, of Greenwich, Connecticut, died in 2017.Prison is an area of mandatory sex/gender segregation based upon the presumption of two sexes and a majority heterosexual population. He survives her, as do Daniel and his wife Deb, now of Sarasota, Florida.

In 1985, several years after her separation from Wise, she became the companion of Leslie Gerber. She moved to Woodstock in the late 1960s, where she married Hal Wise and raised their son Daniel. She also wrote poetry and short stories for her private amusement. She wrote for several major publishers, collaborated on two adult literacy series, and ended her career as a writer for Scholastic, for which she wrote many books. It was published under her original name of Agnes McCarthy and became a minor children’s classic, remaining in print for more than 25 years.Īfter writing a few more trade books, Tara was recruited by an educational publisher and began a long career as a writer of educational materials, textbooks and teacher guides. After she returned east, she worked as a writer and editor at My Weekly Reader and wrote a book called “Room 10” based on her classroom experiences. After high school she attended Catholic University in Washington, later earning a master’s degree in education at Columbia University.Īn early marriage brought her to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where she taught third grade for three years. Her family moved to Scarsdale when she was five. Tara was born in New York on June 20, 1933. Tara McCarthy died at her home in Woodstock on October 12, after a long struggle with dementia.

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