Incarcerated Women and Girls

This report, by The Sentencing Project, examines the changes in involvement of women and girls in the criminal and juvenile legal system over the past quarter century. The report includes data examining the rise of women and girls’ incarceration in jails, state and federal prisons, residential placement centers, as well as women under the control of the U.S. Corrections systems through probation or parole., This report also highlights the disproportionate rates of incarceration of Black and Native and Indigenous girls in the juvenile legal system and compares the varying incarceration and confinement rates for women and girls by state.