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Missouri Report
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Missouri
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 111 (21st) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
6 (28th)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 538 (8th) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 85 (8th)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 158
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 2,503
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 1,484%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 11%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 33%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN MISSOURI
At
year-end 2004, Missouri prisons housed 31,061 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 28,558
were male and 2,503 were female. Missouri ranked 8th highest
in its 2004 female imprisonment rate with 85 female prisoners
per 100,000 female residents, and 8th highest in its 2004
overall imprisonment rate with 538 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
In
1977, Missouri prisons housed 158 female inmates; by 2004,
the female prison population had reached 2,503. Missouri's
female prison population was at its lowest with 158 female
prisoners in 1977 and peaked at 2,503 female inmates in 2004.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Missouri's female prison population grew by
1,484% with an average annual percent change of 11.5% per
year.
From
1977 through the mid-1990s, Missouri's female imprisonment
rate growth tracked average growth across the states. In the
mid-1990's growth in Missouri's female imprisonment rate accelerated
quite rapidly, so that by 2004, Missouri's female imprisonment
rate was substantially higher than average. With an imprisonment
rate of 85 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents,
Missouri ranked 8th most punitive in 2004.
MALE
TO FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATIO
The
male to female imprisonment ratio indicates the number of
male inmates for every female inmate. Although both female
and male imprisonment rates have increased over the period
of study, a shrinking ratio suggests that the number of female
prisoners has increased at a faster pace. In 1977, across
the states, there were an average of 26 male prisoners for
every female prisoner; by 2004, this ratio had fallen to 13
male prisoners for every female prisoner. Missouri's 1977
ratio was quite a bit higher than average with 33 male prisoners
for every female prisoner. By 2004, Missouri's male to female
imprisonment ratio (11:1) had declined to the point where
it was lower than the average across states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Missouri has 28 correctional facilities. Of Missouri's 28
correctional facilities, 23 house male prisoners only, three
house female prisoners only, and two house both male and female
prisoners.
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