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| Women's prisons filling fast |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/08/2004 |
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The number of women in state and federal prisons is at an all-time high and growing fast, with the rate of increase nearly twice that of men, the government reported Sunday. There were 101,179 women in prisons last year, 3.6% more than in 2002, the Justice Department said. That marks the first time the women's prison population has topped 100,000, and continues a trend of rapid growth. Overall, men are far more likely than women to be in jail or prison, and black men are more likely than any other group to be locked up. At the close of 2003, U.S. prisons held 1,368,866 men, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported. The total was 2% more than in 2002. Expressed in terms of the population at large, it means that in 2003, 1 in every 109 U.S. men was in prison. For women, the figure was 1 in every 1,613. Longer sentences, especially for drug crimes, and fewer prisoners being granted parole or probation are major reasons for the expanding population, said Marc Mauer, assistant director of the Sentencing Project, which advocates alternatives to long prison terms for many kinds of crimes. The increase began three decades ago and continues. The new report compared 2003 figures with those from 1995. The number of women in prison has grown 48% since 1995, when the figure was 68,468, the report said. The male prison population has grown 29% over that time, from 1,057,406. Year by year, the number of women incarcerated grew an average of 5%, compared to an average annual increase of 3.3% for men. The prison figures do not fully reflect the number of people behind bars. About 80,000 women were in local jails last year, along with more than 600,000 men. Federal prisons held a large share of women, with a population of 11,635 at the close of 2003. One state - Texas - held even more, 13,487. California, which has the nation's largest prison system, had 10,656 women. North Dakota held fewer women in prison than any other state - 113. |
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