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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01mk61rm15d| Title: | Women’s mass incarceration: The whole pie 2019 |
| Contributors: | Kajstura, Aleks |
| Keywords: | Women prisoners—United States—Statistics Mass incarceration—United States |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2019 |
| Publisher: | Prison Policy Initiative |
| Place of Publication: | Northampton, MA |
| Description: | 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 231,000 women and girls incarcerated in the United States, and how they fit into the even broader picture of correctional control. We pull 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. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01mk61rm15d |
| Related resource: | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019women.html |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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