Trends in Women's Incarceration Rates in US Prisons and Jails: A Tale of Inequalities

Women's rates of imprisonment and incarceration in jails grew faster than men's during the prison boom United States. Even recent period modest decline incarceration, women's have decreased less rates. The number women prisons States is now at a historic high. Yet research on mass most often ignores confinement jails. This review examines trends highlighting important disparities for Black, Latina, American Indian/Indigenous women. It contextualizes these terms economic social disadvantages prior to as well inequalities that are created by families, communities, themselves. concludes calling improved data jail trends, particularly regarding race ethnicity, more theoretical development.