#Deneen Lawson

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When listening to Episode #8 of the Surviving BJU: A Christian Cult podcast, I was struck by the account of the survivor of sexual assault after the GRACE Report.

Apparently Deneen Lawson has a habit of saying to female BJU students that, if they have no place to go after expulsion:

There's always a homeless shelter.

Do you want your daughter to experience that? If not, then don't send her to Bob Jones University!

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)

Crime, Drama |

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a American crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Tom Bower, Jennifer Coolidge, Alvin ‘Xzibit’ Joiner, Val Kilmer, and Brad Dourif.

Though the film’s title and story loosely resembles that of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, according to Herzog, it is neither a sequel nor a remake; its only commonality is a corrupt policeman as the central character. Nonetheless, the director of the original Bad Lieutenant film, Abel Ferrara, expressed dismay that the Herzog film was being made. Both Bad Lieutenant films were produced by Edward R. Pressman.

In August 2005, Terence McDonagh is a New Orleans police sergeant. While cleaning out a locker after Hurricane Katrina, he notices that a prisoner may not have been transferred. When he finds the prisoner about to drown, he mocks him before eventually jumping in the water to save him. He is promoted to police lieutenant and given a medal for his work, but has suffered a serious back injury because of the rescue. As a result, he is prescribed Vicodin to manage the pain.

Six months later, McDonagh is now not only addicted to painkillers, but is habitually using several other drugs including cocaine and cannabis. He has convinced a person that works in the police department to bring him drugs sent to the evidence room. His girlfriend Frankie Donnenfeld, a prostitute, also does cocaine and they often share drugs. He has become estranged from his father Pat, a recovering alcoholic, and his alcoholic stepmother, Genevieve. Over the course of the film, he uses his position as an officer to bully people and steal more drugs.

Director: Werner Herzog

Writer: William M. Finkelstein (screenplay)

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Jennifer Coolidge, Val Kilmer, Xzibit, Fairuza Balk

►Cast:

Nicolas Cage…Terence McDonaghEva Mendes…Frankie DonnenfieldVal Kilmer…Stevie PruitXzibit…Big Fate (as Alvin ‘Xzibit’ Joiner)Fairuza Balk…HeidiShawn Hatosy…Armand BenoitJennifer Coolidge…GenevieveTom Bower…Pat McDonaghVondie Curtis-Hall…Captain James BrasserBrad Dourif…Ned SchoenholtzDenzel Whitaker…DarylIrma P. Hall…Binnie RogersShea Whigham…JustinMichael Shannon…MundtJoe Nemmers…Larry MoyJ.D. Evermore…Rick Fitzsimon (as JD Evermore)Tim Bellow…G (Gary Jenkins)Lucius Baston…MidgetLauren Swinney…AntoinetteNick Gomez…Evaristo ChavezWilliam M. Finkelstein…Dave Jacobs (as William Finklestein)Sam Medina…AndyLance E. Nichols…Jeremiah GoodhusbandTony Bentley…HurleyJeremy Aaron Johnson…YascoBernard Johnson…Dub (as Bernard Bunchy Johnson)Matt Borel…BernieGary Grubbs…Chief of PoliceJ. Omar Castro…First Narcotics DetectiveKerry Cahill…Second Narcotics DetectiveNoel Arthur…Renaldo HayesDouglas M. Griffin…SergeantLauren Pennington…WomanDane Rhodes…BettorJedda Jones…Civilian AideDon Yesso…ClientTrey Burvant…DealerRobert Pavlovich…Dr. MilburnMarco St. John…Eugene GratzDavid Joseph Martinez…Juan MichelDanielle Elaine Mcallister…KimKyle Clements…LawrenceDeena Beasley…Maimouna (as Dorinda Deena Beasley)Deneen Tyler…Pharmacist (as Deneen D. Tyler)Roger J. Timber…Security Guard (as Roger Timber)Joshua Joseph Gillum…Host (as Joshua Gillum)Sean Boyd…Lt. StoyerKatie Chonacas…TinaBrandi Gerard…Yvonne (as Brandi Coleman)Michael Zimbrich…WaiterTrenton Perez…BoyStephanie Honoré…GirlKatrell Dixon…Witness #1Stephen C. Lewis…Witness #2 (as Stephen Lewis)Armando Leduc…Jeff (as Armando L. Leduc)Jillian Batherson…Assistant to D.A.Joel Davis…First Announcer (voice)John Wilmot…Second Announcer (voice)Wilfred Alexander…Store Employee #1April Gordon…Store Employee #2Chris Angerdina…Police OfficerMichael Arnona…Police CaptainDewayne Bateman…CSI / ForensicJoseph Cintron…Police OfficerThomas C. Daniel…A ‘John’Sean Shyboy Davis…Cop #1Antonio Echeverria…Street GuyGeraldine Glenn…Family MemberRussell M. Haeuser…A ‘John’Victor Eli Hugo…Police OfficerTopher Jones…Undercover DetectiveTed Jordan…DetectiveRose Lamarche…Accident VictimRaymond Lapino…Patient in WheelcarTony Lawson…Bus PatronCynthia LeBlanc…Banquet GuestElton LeBlanc…Banquet GuestJessica Luebe…Club PatronBrandy Moon…Duffy’s WifeLorin Moore…Promotion ReporterJay Oliver…Casino GamblerKim Ormiston…Enticing ProstituteMisty Ormiston…Enticing ProstituteLyssa Prine…NurseAlex Revan…IversC. Stuart Rome…CSI AgentJaime San Andres…Officer LasseigneScott Schlueter…Undercover DetectiveChaz Smith…Street GuyLogan Douglas Smith…DetectiveTerry Lee Smith…Fallen Police OfficerAntoine Spillers…Bus PassengerCorey Stewart…Bar PatronSarah J. Thompson…Award Ceremony FamilyElizabeth Tranchant…Lieutenant’s WifeRiki Verdin…Masked ParaderDaniel Vincent…Police Ceremony AttendentMichael Wozniak…Undercover Officer

Sources: imdb & wikipedia

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Gender and Sexuality Portfolio Post One: Introduction to Special Interest Topic

Amber H.

Nodulman

Gender and Sexuality 330

6 September 2018

Gender and Sexuality Portfolio Post One: Introduction to Special Interest Topic

             “The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population but houses 25% of all imprisoned people in the world” (Lawson, 2016, p. 273). This quote demonstrates just how many people the United States incarcerates. The amount of people that are incarcerated is a big problem because it has led us to overcrowding. The overcrowding of prison leads us to even more issues that heavily impacts the prisoners well being and health. But how exactly does being incarcerated effect women?

The topic I have selected is Women in Prisons. I am going to be narrowing down my research to study their reproductive healthcare and pregnancy experience throughout the course of their time in prison. I selected this topic because I have always been interested in prisons and the treatment of people within the prison system. In my opinion there is a lot that needs to be changed within our prison system to improve it and help people for the better, instead of negatively impacting and hurting them. I have watched many documentaries about prisons such as 13th, and Babies Behind Bars. Babies Behind Bars was an interesting documentary about pregnant women in prison. From what I’ve seen what usually happens when women are pregnant while prison, is that after they have their babies at the hospital they either give the child to a family member/another guardian or it gets put up for adoption. However, in Babies Behind Bars, it was about letting pregnant women keep their babies and spend time and take care of it in a special maternity wing in the prison, which I though was very interesting. So, my interests regarding prisons is what lead me to narrow my topic down to take look into specifically how a pregnant woman’s life is in prison and the different issues that arise from being in prison.

The topics of all my ten articles that I found were either related to pregnancy in prison or reproductive healthcare for women who were incarcerated. Almost all of the articles that I found were written by women. Maybe one or two of the ten had a male author or co-writer. Regarding author affiliation, majority of the authors had written the articles I had found were professors from various professors. Usually the professors were specialized and involved in law school, healthcare, or criminal justice. The one that was not a professor was from the American Correction Association.  As I looked at my ten articles I found a common theme of reproductive health care within all the research questions. To be more specific, the research questions had mentioned a lot about how hard it was to receive proper healthcare while in jail. Another specific that was discussed was the separation of the child from its mother after it was born and also alternatives to the separation to try and help the mothers. The methodology from majority of the articles was interviews. Interviews allowed the authors to get first hand perspectives from the women that were incarcerated. Some of the answers that the women gave in the interviews were that it was hard to get proper medical attention, for example in one of the articles a women who was experiencing vaginal bleeding, but the officers had refused her to go and get attention because she did not put her name on the list to get seen by the nurse who treats the pregnant women at that jail. So, she had to end up slamming her thumb in a door in order to get seen so both her thumb and vaginal bleed could get taken care of.  Future research indicated more interviews to help improve the health care of women in jail and to do studies to see how the maternity wings in prisons effect the women when they are able to keep their child, so then that research may be able to help improve the lives of more women.

The search terms that I used with my studies included women, prisoners, pregnant and reproductive health. I narrowed it down to scholarly articles between the years of 2012 and 2018. As well as full text. The number of results I received for my women, pregnant, and prisoners search gave me exactly 40 results. My search with women, prisoners, and reproductive health gave me 15 results. The absolute most important term for me to be using during my research was pregnant and reproductive health since that is what I picked to focus on regarding women in prisons. To summarize everything that I found within my ten articles, a lot of it had to deal with how they could not receive proper care that they needed. Women were not taken seriously, or their concerns were not really listened to. Another main point was that about half of my articles were taking about the separation of the mother and child after it was born. They showed that if mothers were able to keep their baby, then they would improve overall. However, if their baby was taken away, then they would relapse into preview behaviors and get worse. Majority of the authors were women from universities that either dealt with law, criminal justice, or health care. A common theme between these authors was that a lot of them conducted interviews to get a first-hand look to what it was really like for women to be in prisons while pregnant.

Women in prisons have a hard time receiving the proper medical care that they need, especially when pregnant. Women’s health and concerns need to be taken seriously by the staff at the prison. Regarding pregnant women and their children, studies showed that it was beneficial to the women to keep their child and not be separated. Our prison systems have a lot to change in order to meet the needs of the women. Health care is very important and there should be no struggle in getting it. Good and proper health care is a right to all people and everyone should be able to get it. I learned how difficult it really was for women to receive the health care that they needed. Reading some of the stories, it was horrible reading what some had to do in order to get health care. Like the one mother that I previously mentioned that had to slam her thumb in order to get seen. The author even said, “After experiencing vaginal bleeding, which can be a sign of miscarriage, she requested to visit the medical unit. The jail staff refused because Martinez had not put her name on a list to see the nurse who treated pregnant prisoners. “I was scared,” said Martinez in a later newspaper interview.1 “So I just grabbed the door and I slammed my thumb. I didn’t know what was wrong with me or my baby.” Within ten minutes Martinez received care for her thumb and vaginal bleeding. Martinez knew instinctively what was required to receive adequate healthcare as a female prisoner—an injury that looked like one a man could sustain” (Marquis 2018). 

Works Cited (Everything was in APA but it got messed up when I pasted it into here)

Bard, E., Knight, M., & Plugge, E. (2016). Perinatal health care services for imprisoned pregnant women and associated outcomes: A systematic review. 1-19. doi:10.1186/s12884-016-1080-z

Byrne, M. W., Goshin, L., & Blanchard-Lewis, B. (2012). Maternal Separations During The Reentry Years For 100 Infants Raised In A Prison Nursery. Family Court Review, 50(1), 77-90. doi:10.1111/j.1744-1617.2011.01430.x

Elmalak, S. (2015). Babies Behind Bars: An Evaluation of Prison Nurseries in American Female Prisons and Their Potential Constitutional Challenges. 1080-1106. Retrieved September 5, 2018.

Fritz, S., & Whiteacre, K. (2015). Prison nurseries: Experiences of incarcerated women during pregnancy. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 55(1), 1-20. doi:10.1080/10509674.2015.1107001

Kotlar, B., Kornrich, R., Deneen, M., Kenner, C., Theis, L., Esenwein, S. V., & Webb-Girard, A. (2015). Meeting Incarcerated Womens Needs For Pregnancy-Related and Postpartum Services: Challenges and Opportunities. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 47(4), 221-225. doi:10.1363/47e3315

Kuhlik, L. (2017). Pregnancy Behind Bars: The Constitutional Argument for Reproductive Healthcare Access in Prison. 501-535.

Marquis, E. (2018). “Nothing Less Than the Dignity of Man”: Women Prisoners, Reproductive Health, and Unequal Access to Justice Under the Eighth Amendment. 203-230. Retrieved September 5, 2018.

Powell, C., Marzano, L., & Ciclitira, K. (2016). Mother–infant separations in prison. A systematic attachment-focused policy review. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 28(2), 274-289. doi:10.1080/14789949.2016.1204465

A. (2012). Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Women and Adolescent Females. 425-429. Retrieved September 4, 2018.

Sufrin, C. (2015). “Doctor, Why Didn’t You Adopt My Baby?” Observant Participation, Care, and the Simultaneous Practice of Medicine and Anthropology. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 39(4), 614-633. doi:10.1007/s11013-015-9435-x

[wutbju]

Here's a clue.

If you look at the BJU University Leadership listing, a few things become obvious. Look at the list of BJU employees. Let's cross off the ones that signed that big ultimatum letter to the Board.

Gary Weier, PhD

Alan Benson, DMin

John Matthews, MBA

Bobby Wood, PhD

Steve Dickinson, BS

Carol Keirstead, MS

David Fisher, PhD

Beverly Cormican, EdD

Kevin Taylor, MS

David Lovegrove, BS

Renton Rathbun, PhD

Renae Wentworth, EdD

Darren Lawson, PhD

Brian Carruthers, EdD

Richard Stratton, PhD

Jessica Minor, PhD

Kevin Oberlin, PhD

Neal Cushman, PhD

Pattye Casarow, DMA

Brian Trainer, MDiv

Daniel Smith, EdD

Brian Burch, MBA

Susan Wise, BS

Phillip Gerard, MA

Doug Garland, EdD

Jonathan Daulton, MDiv

Deneen Lawson, BAPCT

Neal Ring, EdD

Let's keep going. Here's who's left. Now there are some folks that are out of the running right off: those with ladybits and those who are behind-the-scenes folks.

Carol Keirstead, MS

Kevin Taylor, MS

David Lovegrove, BS

Renton Rathbun, PhD

Pattye Casarow, DMA

Brian Trainer, MDiv

Daniel Smith, EdD

Brian Burch, MBA

Susan Wise, BS

Jonathan Daulton, MDiv

Deneen Lawson, BAPCT

Neal Ring, EdD

Now who's left?

Renton Rathbun, PhD

Brian Trainer, MDiv

Jonathan Daulton, MDiv

Are these three of the candidates for the next president of BJU? They could be considered "pastors" of some variety.

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Jon Daulton, the new Director of Student Life, and Deneen Lawson, the WOMEN’S Director of Student Life, want to assure you:

Daulton echoes the sentiment of freely speaking to Student Life about policies. “Don’t be afraid to come and talk to us about why we have a policy,” he said.

“Maybe [the policy is being changed] because the policy has been there for a while and has served its purpose but is no longer necessary,” he said. “And when we talk with that student and convene and discuss it together, it becomes one of those [rules] that we do away with.”

Lawson is passionate about sharing the mission of Student Life: love. “We truly love the students,” she said. “We’re truly trying to help them for life.”

Yes, when Deneen Lawson shows up in the Emergency Room to expel you after you’ve been assaulted, she’s just “trying to help you for life.”

Current students, do not believe them when they say it’s safe to come talk to them. Never believe them.

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The REAP site has all the plaintiffs' stories, but Elizabeth Faith Hunter is our fellow BJU alum. Hear her words:

EIizabeth Hunter lives in Greenville, SC. She lived in foster care until the age of 10 and survived a sexual assault during this time, after which she was placed with a family and grew up in Texas as part of a fundamentalist Christian cult. She identifies as a lesbian. Her parents did not want her to attend college because she is a woman, but she applied to Bob Jones University without her parents knowing, because it was one of the few colleges that she thought she could attend without being disowned. Bob Jones University has a student handbook detailing rules of behavior for students and includes several specific anti-LGBTQ+ policies, including regulation of romantic and sexual relationships between people of the same sex. “As someone figuring out their sexuality while at college, Bob Jones University’s policies on sexuality and marriage created a scary, harsh environment for me,” Elizabeth said. During her junior year she came out to a few friends and began posting online about LGBTQ+ themes, including mentioning that she was reading a book featuring a lesbian and writing a book where one of the characters is in a lesbian relationship. During a three hour meeting with a BJU administrator, where she was summoned without advance notice, she was told by school leadership that she “must be gay” for reading and writing these materials. She told them she was “not straight” but that she had not broken any policies. “I was asked to disavow my support for LGBTQ+ rights and relationships. I refused,” she said. “It would have been like disavowing myself.” BJU immediately placed Elizabeth on disciplinary probation, charged her a monetary fine, terminated her from her on-campus student life position in the school’s media department and forced her to attend mandatory counseling with the Dean of Women. “This was the darkest month of my entire life. I felt depressed and suicidal. For the rest of my time at BJU, I was forced completely back into the closet and had to hold my head down in shame. I survived and graduated in May of 2019. But I still feel the sting of the discrimination I endured.” She is raising her voice to protect all LGBTQ+ students at Bob Jones University and religiously affiliated colleges across the country.

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The lawsuit misnames Deneen Lawson as Deneen Wilson. So down to Paragraph #24:

As of a direct result of Whitfield’s unsolicited statements to Bob Jones about the plaintiff’s use of alcohol, Bob Jones’ Dean of Women, Deneen Wilson, attempted to speak with the plaintiff at the hospital. After she learned that the plaintiff had left the hospital prior to her arrival, Wilson contacted the plaintiff and scheduled a meeting with her and her mother for several hours later.

Imagine it. A young college student is in Greenville Memorial’s ER in the wee hours of the morning. This young woman is Deneen Lawson’s responsibility. 

But what does Lawson do? Does she show concern and care? Does she bring the girl a McDonald’s cheeseburger and fries? A coffee? Does she offer to drive her back to campus? 

No. When she heard that Jane Roe had done the unthinkable of consuming beverage alcohol....