Women behind bars
Today, more than one million women are currently under the supervision of a justice system in the United States. Population of women involved in correctional facilities has been steadily increasing. The rate has increased by 4.6 percent annually between 1995 and 2005. As of 2010 the United States already had close to one million women under some kind of judicial supervision. Women prisoners had a population around 112,797 , while female inmates in jails were 93,300. Probation has been a big alternative to serving jail time in fact, 712,084 women were on probation in the US in 2010. The US parole system had over 103,374 women currently on parole in 2010. As may be obvious from the above listed statistics, the amount …show more content…
Black women came in at 133 out of every 100,000 , White women 47 out of every 100,000 and Hispanic and other ethnics 77 out of 100,000. The above numbers are said to represent how many women are incarcerated or will be out of 100,000, but regardless of race the numbers continue to rise. In 2013 females accounted for almost 28 percent of total inmate population , up from 25 percent in 2000. Women made up 14 percent of the jail population in 2013, up from 11 percent in 2000. Women make their way into the criminal justice system for many different reasons, number one ,according to 2012 Bureau of Justice statistics , was property crimes. Women are more apt to be caught for theft, fraud, larceny, or drug possession versus men 10. Even though men are more likely to be caught on charges of murder the 2012 statistics show men are 50 percent more likely to commit violent crimes , yet, women are not far behind at 38 percent 8. Women within the last year are being imprisoned at a much faster rate than men. Between 2012 and 2013 the number of women prisoners that were sentenced to time a year or greater grew by almost three percent, while male inmate population stayed at a growth rate of 0.2 percent. The shift from males to females is alarming to these working in and
Today, more than one million women are currently under the supervision of a justice system in the United States. Population of women involved in correctional facilities has been steadily increasing. The rate has increased by 4.6 percent annually between 1995 and 2005. As of 2010 the United States already had close to one million women under some kind of judicial supervision. Women prisoners had a population around 112,797 , while female inmates in jails were 93,300. Probation has been a big alternative to serving jail time in fact, 712,084 women were on probation in the US in 2010. The US parole system had over 103,374 women currently on parole in 2010. As may be obvious from the above listed statistics, the amount …show more content…
Black women came in at 133 out of every 100,000 , White women 47 out of every 100,000 and Hispanic and other ethnics 77 out of 100,000. The above numbers are said to represent how many women are incarcerated or will be out of 100,000, but regardless of race the numbers continue to rise. In 2013 females accounted for almost 28 percent of total inmate population , up from 25 percent in 2000. Women made up 14 percent of the jail population in 2013, up from 11 percent in 2000. Women make their way into the criminal justice system for many different reasons, number one ,according to 2012 Bureau of Justice statistics , was property crimes. Women are more apt to be caught for theft, fraud, larceny, or drug possession versus men 10. Even though men are more likely to be caught on charges of murder the 2012 statistics show men are 50 percent more likely to commit violent crimes , yet, women are not far behind at 38 percent 8. Women within the last year are being imprisoned at a much faster rate than men. Between 2012 and 2013 the number of women prisoners that were sentenced to time a year or greater grew by almost three percent, while male inmate population stayed at a growth rate of 0.2 percent. The shift from males to females is alarming to these working in and