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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 16 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.
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
Gender
Disparities relating to gender
- 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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