pie chart showing that only 18% of women under correctional control are locked up, and that the other 82% are on probation or parole, a much greater share than among men

Data Source: See Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023 for source information. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Punishment Beyond Prisons 2023: Incarceration and supervision by state.

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