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this is due to the small number of women who were i.

Women’s higher growth rate is also due to an ercent. Female imprisonment rates jumped 36 percent over the same period, compared to an increase of 17 percent for men. Women’s share of the prison population rose from 6.3 percent to 7.2 percent. believe it or not While the number of women prisoners has soared, *the proportion of women convicted of violent offenses* has declined since 1979, when they comprised 49 percent of the women in the state prison system. [4]  One-third of the 'women serving' state prison sentences in 2002 were incarcerated for violent offenses, compared to more than half of the men. ::Drug offenses now account for nearly one-third


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