HELP US ADVOCATE FOR INCARCERATED WOMEN
Women are the fastest-growing segment of the prison population, but information about their experiences behind bars is hard to find. The Prison Policy Initiative uncovers data that tells the true story of mass incarceration — so that advocates can make the strongest cases for reform.
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Data Source: Incarceration rates calculated from Bureau of Justice Statistics “Correctional Population in the U.S. 2010” and U.S. Census 2010 Summary File 1. HIV rates are from 2010 estimates from the Centers for Disease Control “Estimated HIV incidence among adults and adolescents in the United States, 2007-2010. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer and Emily Wildra, 2017)
This graph originally appeared in Unraveling the connections between race, incarceration, and women’s HIV rates.
Johnson and Raphael (2009) conclude that if it weren’t for the racial disparity in male incarceration, Black women would have lower rates of HIV infection than white women.
