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Mar 4, 2024 · A comprehensive list of federal and state correction facilities for women by location, type, and address. Includes jails, prisons, community-based facilities, and coed facilities, with information from official sources and Johns Hopkins University.
Nov 28, 2018 · A former federal inmate and advocate for women in prison discusses the challenges and needs of female inmates in the U.S. system. She shares her personal experience and insights on how to improve conditions and reduce incarceration rates.
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- PBS NewsHour
Mar 5, 2024 · A report that provides the most recent and comprehensive data on women’s incarceration in the U.S., including jails, prisons, juvenile facilities, and immigration detention. The report shows the unique and troubling role that jails play in women’s incarceration, and the impact of mass incarceration on women’s families and health.
Oct 15, 2018 · The population of women in prison has risen more than 750 percent since 1980, yet women going to prison are entering an institution built to control men. One result is that women in...
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- Joseph Shapiro,Jessica Pupovac,Kari Lydersen
- Jails Loom Large in Women’s Incarceration
- Women Disproportionately Stuck in Jails: Causes and Effects
- Ending Mass Incarceration Requires Looking at All Offenses — and All Women
- Mass Incarceration Targets Girls, Too
- Prison Is No Answer For Marginalized, Traumatized Women
- The Tentacles of Mass Incarceration Have A Long Reach
- The Need For More Data
- Acknowledgements
- About The Authors
- About The Prison Policy Initiative
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A staggering number of women who are incarcerated are not even convicted: more than a quarter of women who are behind bars have not yet had a trial. Moreover, 60% of women in jails under local control have not been convicted of a crime and are awaiting trial. Aside from women under local authority (or jurisdiction), state and federal agencies also ...
Avoiding pretrial detention is particularly challenging for women. The number of unconvicted women stuck in jail is surely not because courts are considering women to be a flight risk, particularly when they are generally the primary caregivers of children. The far more likely answer is that incarcerated women, who have lower incomes than incarcera...
The numbers revealed by this report enable a national conversation about policies that impact women incarcerated by different government agencies and in different types of facilities. These figures also serve as the foundation for reforming the policies that lead to incarcerating women in the first place. Too often, the conversation about criminal ...
Of the girls confined in youth facilities, nearly 1 in 10 are held for status offenses, such as “running away, truancy, and incorrigibility.” Among boys, status offenses account for just 3% of the confined population. These statistics are particularly troubling because status offenses tend to be simply responses to abuse.12 As is the case with wome...
About half of confined women and girls are held in state and federal prisons. In general, women in prison are serving longer sentences than those in jails, and they are often located far from their families and friends. Even in geographically large states like Montana and Arizona, sometimes there is just one facility for women, making visits diffic...
Even the “whole pie” of incarceration in the chart above represents just one small portion (18%) of the women under any form of correctional control, which includes 808,700 women on probation or parole. Again, this is in stark contrast to the total correctional population (mostly men), where one-third (34%) of all people under correctional control ...
The picture of women’s incarceration is far from complete, and many questions remain about mass incarceration’s unique impact on women. This report offers the critical estimate that a quarter of all incarcerated women are unconvicted. But — since the federal government hasn’t collected the key underlying data in almost 20 years— is that number grow...
The Prison Policy Initiative would like to thank the ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice for their partnership over the years in producing the Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie report series. The organization also thanks the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, and all of the donors, researchers, programmers and designers who he...
Aleks Kajstura is Legal Director at the Prison Policy Initiative. She directs the organization’s campaign to end prison gerrymandering (the practice of using prison populations to distort democracy via redistricting). Aleks has also published several reports on women’s incarceration, including previous versions of Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Wh...
The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative was founded in 2001 to expose the broader harms of mass criminalization and spark advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. Through big-picture reports like Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, as well as in-depth reports on issues such as medical neglect behind bars and bail reform, the o...
A detailed report on the number and characteristics of women and girls incarcerated in the U.S. in 2024, based on data from various sources. It examines the role of jails, the impact of COVID, and the challenges of gender-specific data.
WPA is a nonprofit organization that helps women impacted by incarceration to redefine their lives. It offers safe spaces, community connections, and advocacy for freedom, safety, and independence.
Oct 10, 2017 · Learn about the unique struggles of women and girls who are incarcerated in the U.S., where they face high rates of sexual abuse, family separation, and stigma. Watch videos and read essays from people who have experienced the criminal justice system firsthand.
