Prison Policy Initiative publishes “States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2025”
Earliet this week, the Prison Policy Initiative published this week this notable new accounting of women’s incarceration under the title “States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2025.” This graphic reprinted here previews some of the data and visuals from the report:
Here is an excerpt from the start of the report:
The United States still incarcerates 614 people for every 100,000 residents, more than almost any other country in the world. Women in particular are incarcerated in the U.S. at a rate of 112 per 100,000. This may seem relatively minor, but it’s a scale of women’s incarceration that remains higher than that of any other country except El Salvador. Furthermore, women’s incarceration stubbornly remains at near-historic highs in the U.S., while the country’s overall incarceration rate has been falling.
This report helps make sense of these numbers, providing an updated snapshot of how women in the U.S. fare in the world’s carceral landscape and comparing incarceration rates for women in each U.S. state with the equivalent rates for countries around the world.