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Connecticut
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 53 (46th) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
4 (41st)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 377 (29th) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 44 (33rd)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 71
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 788
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 1,010%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 11%
Percent Decrease 1999-2004: 3%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN CONNECTICUT
At
year-end 2004, Connecticut prisons housed 13,240 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 12,452
were male and 788 were female. Connecticut's 2004 female imprisonment
rate of 44 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents is
the 33rd highest in the country. Connecticut's 2004 overall
imprisonment rate of 377 prisoners per 100,000 residents is
the 29th highest overall imprisonment rate in the country.
In
1977, Connecticut prisons housed 71 female inmates; by 2004,
the female prison population had reached 788. Connecticut's
female prison population was at its lowest with 64 female
prisoners in 1979 and peaked at 925 female inmates in 2002.
GROWTH IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Connecticut's female prison population grew
by 1,010% with an average annual percent change of 11.2% per
year.
Although
Connecticut's female imprisonment rate has typically fallen
below the average across states, it rose slightly above the
average in the early 1990s and again in the late 1990s. Connecticut's
imprisonment rate growth has been fairly erratic, particularly
through the 1990s. By 2004, Connecticut's female imprisonment
rate was substantially below average (as it had been through
the 1970s and 1980s).
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. Connecticut's 1977
ratio was slightly lower than average with 24 male prisoners
for every female prisoner. By 2004, Connecticut's male to
female imprisonment ratio (16:1) was slightly higher than
the average across states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Connecticut has 20 correctional facilities. Of Connecticut's
20 correctional facilities, 19 house male prisoners only,
one houses female prisoners only, and none house both male
and female prisoners.
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