Incarceration of women in the United States
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Incarceration of women in the United States
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The incarceration of women in the United States refers to the imprisonment of women in both prisons and jails in the United States. There are approximately 219,000 incarcerated women in the US according to a November 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative, and the rate of incarceration of women in the United States is at a historic and global high, with 133 women in correctional facilities per every 100,000 female citizens. The United States is home to just 4% of the world's female populati
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Topic page on incarceration of women
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_of_women_in_the_United_States
date created:
2013-11-25T00:10:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T10:42:51Z
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