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Author: Kajstura, Aleks

Title: Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018

Summary: With growing public attention to the problem of mass incarceration, people want to know about women's experience with incarceration. How many women are held in prisons, jails, and other correctional facilities in the United States? And why are they there? How is their experience different from men's? While these are important questions, finding those answers requires not only disentangling the country’s decentralized and overlapping criminal justice systems, but also unearthing the frustratingly hard to find and often altogether missing data on gender. This report provides a detailed view of the 219,000 women incarcerated in the United States, and how they fit into the even broader picture of correctional control. This 2018 update to our inaugural Women's Whole Pie report pulls together data from a number of government agencies and calculates the breakdown of women held by each correctional system by specific offense. The report, produced in collaboration with the ACLU's Campaign for Smart Justice, answers the questions of why and where women are locked up.

Details: Northampton, MA: Prison Policy Initiative, 2018. 6p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 12, 2019 at: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018women.html

Year: 2018

Country: United States

URL: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2018/11/13/mass-incarceration-women-2018/

Shelf Number: 154084

Keywords:
Campaign for Smart Justice
Correctional Institutions
Female Inmates
Female Offenders
Jails
Mass Incarceration
Prison Policy Initiative
Prisons
Women Prisons