The use of incarceration stayed pretty constant from the mid 1920’s through the mid 1970’s. Then, from the mid 1970’s up to 2008, the incarceration rate increased every year. The biggest incarceration trend was from 1980 to 2009 when the state and federal rates increased fourfold (Bohm & Haley, 2011). The biggest characteristic of the incarceration population is that 9 out of 10 inmates in prison are males. The majority of the inmates did not graduate high school or have their GED, not married, and were younger than thirty five years old. Studies show that in 2009, the incarceration rate for men was 949 per 100,000 and only 67 per 100,000 for women (Bohm & Haley, 2011). Of all the inmates incarcerated, roughly three quarters of them had
