Facts About Women & Criminal Justice

From: Institute on Women & Criminal Justice

• The number of women in prison has grown by over 800% in the past three decades.
• Two-thirds of these women are in prison for non-violent offenses.
• Mothers are among the fastest growing prison population. Two-thirds are mothers - (77% of those were the daily caregivers for their children, 11% report their children are in foster care).

Women of color are disproportionately represented in prison.

• 93 out of every 100,000 white women
• 349 out of 100,000 black women
• 147 out of 100,000 Hispanic women

Fifty-one percent of sentenced women were between the ages of 30-44

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