from Prison Policy Initiative:
Every U.S. state incarcerates more women per capita than most independent nations of the world, a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative shows. Collectively, the United States accounts for 4 percent of the world’s women, but holds one-quarter of women who are incarcerated worldwide.
States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2025 provides a comprehensive women’s incarceration rate for every U.S. state — including prisons and jails, youth confinement facilities, tribal jails, immigrant detention centers, and other types of incarceration — comparing states to each other and to countries of the world. The report offers a crucial lens through which to view the criminalization of women, who are a small minority of all incarcerated people in the U.S., but whose incarceration rates today are at near-historic highs.
Continue reading the report here
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