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The Sentencing Project released a report documenting over a 525% increase in the women’s imprisonment in the United States between 1980 and 2021. The report, Incarcerated Women and Girls [[link removed]] , is the latest in a series of publications highlighting the 50-year legacy of mass incarceration in the United States as part of The Sentencing Project’s 50 Years and A Wake Up [[link removed]] campaign.
While more men are imprisoned than women, the rate of growth for female incarceration is twice as high as that of men since 1980. In 2021, almost 976,000 women were under supervision of the criminal legal system. The report’s additional highlights:
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In
2021,
the
imprisonment
rate
for
Black
women
(62
per
100,000)
was
1.6
times
the
rate
of
imprisonment
for
white
women
(38
per
100,000).
*
Latinx
women
were
imprisoned
at
1.3
times
the
rate
of
white
women
(49
vs.
38
per
100,000).
*
The
rate
of
imprisonment
for
Black
and
Latinx
women
has
declined
since
2000,
while
the
rate
of
imprisonment
for
white
women
has
increased.
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Idaho
has
the
highest
rate
of
incarcerated
women,
while
Massachusetts
has
the
lowest.
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58%
of
imprisoned
women
in
state
prisons
have
a
child
under
the
age
of
18.
*
Black
and
Native
American
girls
are
much
more
likely
to
be
incarcerated
than
Asian,
white,
and
Latinx
girls.
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Over
one-third
of
incarcerated
girls
are
held
for
status
offenses,
such
as
truancy
and
curfew
violations,
or
for
violating
the
terms
of
their
probation.
As this year marks fifty years since the United States began its dramatic increase in imprisonment, it is clearer than ever that this is not working. The continued overcriminalization of women and girls does nothing to improve public safety, but needlessly destroys lives, families and communities.
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Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Co-Director of Research and author of report [[link removed]] Kristen Budd
Research Analyst
Email: [email protected]
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The title for this campaign, 50 Years and a Wake Up: Ending the Mass Incarceration Crisis In America [[link removed]] , was born out of a colloquial phrase that incarcerated people sometimes use to describe the length of their sentence, plus one day (e.g. “I have 20 years and a wake up”).
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