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Kansas
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 97 (25th) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
8 (26th)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 327 (36th) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 45 (32nd)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 89
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 620
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 597%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 8%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 9%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN KANSAS
At
year-end 2004, Kansas prisons housed 8,966 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 8,346 were
male and 620 were female. Kansas ranks 32nd in female imprisonment
with a rate of 45 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents.
Kansas' 2004 overall imprisonment rate of 327 prisoners per
100,000 residents is the 36th highest overall imprisonment
rate.
In
1977, Kansas prisons housed 89 female inmates; by 2004, the
female prison population had reached 620. Kansas female prison
population was at its lowest with 82 female prisoners in 1979
and peaked at 629 female inmates in 2003.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Kansas' female prison population grew by 597%
with an average annual percent change of 8.3% per year.
The
female imprisonment rate in Kansas fluctuated somewhat erratically
between 1977 and 2004. Through the mid to late 1980s, Kansas'
female imprisonment rate was above average. Kansas female
imprisonment rate fell below average in 1989 and remained
so through 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. Kansas' 1977 ratio
was slightly lower than average with 24 male prisoners for
every female prisoner. By 2004, Kansas' male to female imprisonment
ratio (13:1) was equal to the average across states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Kansas has 11 correctional facilities. Of Kansas' 11 correctional
facilities, eight house male prisoners only, one houses female
prisoners only, and two house both male and female prisoners.
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