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I co-founded the Prison Policy Initiative to put the problem of mass incarceration — and the perverse incentives that fuel it — on the national agenda. Over the last 17 years, our campaigns have protected our democracy from the prison system and protected the poorest families in this country from the predatory prison telephone industry. Our reports untangle the statistics and recruit new allies.
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But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation. Any gift you can make today will be matched by other donors and go twice as far.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
Gender
Disparities relating to gender
- How many women are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2018)
- Nearly half of incarcerated women are held in jails (Created: 2018)
- Correctional Control of Women (Created: 2018)
- Formerly incarcerated people of color face the greatest educational disadvantages (Created: 2018)
- Parents caught in the trap of unaffordable money bail (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
- U.S. incarceration rate for women compare to that of other founding NATO members (Created: 2018)
- Comparing the women's incarceration rates of U.S. states to other, similar, countries (Created: 2018)
- Jail separates 2.3 million mothers from their children (Created: 2018)
- Changes in male homicide rates by race 1980-2015 (Created: 2018)
- Changes in female homicide rates by race 1980-2015 (Created: 2018)
- State policy drives women's incarceration growth - rates (Created: 2018)
- State policy drives women's incarceration growth - raw numbers (Created: 2018)
- Women's prison incarceration rate: select states and all 50 states (Created: 2018)
- Women's and men's incarceration numbers and rates by state, 1978-2015 (Created: 2018)
- How many women are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2017)
- Correctional control of women (Created: 2017)
- Women much more likely than men to experience "serious psychological distress" while incarcerated (Created: 2017)
- Incarcerated women more likely than men to have history of mental health problems (Created: 2017)
- Relationship between high incarceration rate of Black men and rate of HIV infections among Black women (Created: 2017)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for men in local jails and non-incarcerated men (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for men unable to meet bail and non-incarcerated men (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for women in local jails and non-incarcerated women (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for women unable to meet bail and non-incarcerated women (Created: 2016)
- Gender disparities in prisons and jails (Created: 2016)
- Women's Incarceration Rate: United States 1910-2014 (Created: 2015)
- Young males incarcerated at very high rates (Created: 2012)
- Incarcerated males by race (Created: 2012)
- Incarceration rates by gender (Created: 2012)
- Males are overrepresented in prisons and jails (Created: 2004)
- Number of prisoners and jail inmates by gender, 2001 (Created: 2003)
- Incarceration rates by race and gender, 2000 (Created: 2003)
- Lifetime chance of incarceration, by race (Created: 2003)
- Murder rates by race and gender, 1998 (Created: 2003)
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