According to a report released this week by the Prison Policy Initiative, since 2009, a movement toward justice reform, along with the high cost of over-incarceration to cash strapped states, has slowly reduced state prison populations around the nation. Yet, according to the new report, in the majority of states, the decrease in numbers has been among male inmates, not women in jails and prisons.
Some state, California among them, were successful in also bringing the women’s numbers down.
When the state numbers were aggregated, however, nationwide, women’s state prison populations grew 834% over nearly 40 years, more than double the pace of the growth among men.
[For more on this story by Celeste Fremon, go to http://witnessla.com/u-s-lower...n-it-comes-to-women/]
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