Alissa Skinner

English

9 April, 20:32

The rate of incarceration in prison increased from 27 per 100,000 women in 1985 to 57 per 100,000 in 1998. Men still outnumber women in the inmate population by a factor of about 14 to 1, but the gap is narrowing - from 17 to 1 a decade ago. Women constituted only 4 percent of the total prison and jail population in the United State in 1980 but more than 6 percent in 1998.

The topic of the passage is

A. The Increasing Number of Women in Jail

B. Men Versus Women in Jail

C. Overcrowded Prisons.

D. Incarceration in America