HELP US GET YOU THE DATA YOU NEED
We need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation about ending mass incarceration.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Gender
Disparities relating to gender
- Women's jail incarceration rates are highest in rural and other smaller counties, lowest in urban counties (Created: 2021)
- Prisons and jails will separate millions of mothers from their children in 2021 (Created: 2021)
- Women's drug arrests have continued to grow even as men's returned to early 1990s levels (Created: 2020)
- People detained pretrial because they can’t pay bail are much poorer than their peers - and the income gaps are widest for Black people (Created: 2020)
- Racial disparities in prison incarceration rates, by sex, 2018 (Created: 2020)
- 81,000 women are released from state prisons each year (Created: 2020)
- Women in prisons and jails in 2017 who were pregnant when admitted (Created: 2019)
- How many women are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2019)
- Nearly half of incarcerated women are held in jails (Created: 2019)
- Correctional control of women extends far beyond prisons and jails (Created: 2019)
- Nearly 10% of confined girls are held for status offenses such as "running away, truancy, and incorrigibility" (Created: 2019)
- 81,000 women are released from state prisons each year (Created: 2019)
- Women make up a growing portion of arrests (Created: 2019)
- Women's share of all police-initiated contacts is even higher than their share of arrests (Created: 2019)
- Women experiencing police use of force rose dramatically between 1999 and 2015 (Created: 2019)
- Searches during traffic stops have declined among men, but not among women (Created: 2019)
- Correctional control of women (detail) (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)
- World Women's Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (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 state prison populations have grown faster than men's (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)
- 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)
- People in jail are poor, unable to meet bail (Created: 2016)
- Gender disparities in prisons and jails (Created: 2016)
- Women's Incarceration Rate: United States 1910-2014 (Created: 2015)
- Incarcerated people earn substantially less prior to their incarceration than their non-incarcerated counterparts (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)
