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| Report Shows Connecticut Had Biggest Drop In Inmate Population |
| By TheDay |
| Published: 11/15/2004 |
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Connecticut's prison population dropped 4.2 percent last year compared with 2002, the largest decrease in the country, the government reported Sunday. The number of Connecticut prisoners fell from 20,720 in 2002 to 19,846 in 2003, according to the new data. The government also reported that the number of women in state and federal prisons nationwide is at an all-time high and growing fast, with the incarceration rate for females increasing at nearly twice that of men. There were 101,179 women in prisons in the United States last year, 3.6 percent 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 still 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 percent more than in 2002. Expressed in terms of the population at large, that means that in 2003, one in every 109 U.S. men was in prison. For women the figure was one in every 1,613. The new report compared 2003 figures with those from 1995. 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. |
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