Rising population of women in prison in America

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The Rising population of Women in Prison Homes in America

Introduction

Incarceration rates in the American region have been rising over the past 20 years . It could not be denied that through the statistical reports , major issues in incarceration include the undeniably increasing rates of women who are incarcerated . Their cases mostly range from the most basic personal assaults towards the murder cases . Both the aggressiveness of women and the weakness of the said gender to defend themselves from

the injustices of the human law have naturally placed them in such situations

In this regard , women who are giving birth n prisons also increase at the same time . More likely , these inmates are involved in either crime-based intercourse within or outside prison homes that they are able to conceive their babies inside their prison cells . How are the said pregnant omen treated and how are their babies delivered and cared for later on ? What programs have been established to support the growing number of women who are delivering their children in prison homes Moreover , if there could be a way to reduce the numbers of women who are annually incarcerated within the America prison homes , what would it possibly be

These questions shall be discussed within the paragraphs that follow This study mainly addresses to the using several research informations and actual program reports that have already been implemented within the prison homes of America . Moreover , through the use of critical analysis of the situation , this research is aimed in

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being able to show the truth on women behind bars and how they are treated as they bear their babies

Women in Prison Homes

According to the Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers , the growing rate of mothers or women who are incarcerated since the year 1994 have been increasingly disturbing . The reports of the said Legal Advocacy are to be listed as follows

The number of women in Illinois state prisons at year-end 2002 was 2 ,520 - a 173 increase in ten years . As of yearend

2002 , the number of incarcerated women nationwide was 97 ,491 . Arrests of women for murder and manslaughter decreased 35 .5 in that time ?Nationwide the percentage of women has more than doubled as a proportion of the population under correctional supervision , from 4 to 9 . About 15 ,000 women are detained in Cook County Jail annually and about 1 ,200 women are in the jail on any given day . 82 percent of all women detained at Cook County Jail in October 2001 were charged with non-violent offenses . More than 61 of women prisoners in Illinois serve sentences for property (32 ) and drug (29 ) offenses . Women 's crime has not become more violent ?Like poverty , imprisonment disproportionately affects women of color In 2002 , 72 of women in pre-trial detention in Cook County were African-American , 7 .5 were Latina , 11...