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Minnesota
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 44 (49th) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
4 (42nd)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 171 (49th) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 21 (46th)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 75
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 544
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 625 %
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 8%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 54%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN MINNESOTA
At
year-end 2004, Minnesota prisons housed 8,758 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 8,214 were
male and 544 were female. Minnesota ranked 46th in its 2004
female imprisonment rate with 21 female prisoners per 100,000
female residents, and 49th in its 2004 overall imprisonment
rate with 171 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
In
1977, Minnesota prisons housed 75 female inmates; by 2004,
the female prison population had reached 544. Minnesota's
female prison population was at its lowest with 67 female
prisoners in 1982 and peaked at 544 female inmates in 2004.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Minnesota's female prison population grew by
625% with an average annual percent change of 8.3% per year.
Minnesota
has always been among the least punitive states in terms of
overall imprisonment (ranked 49th in both 1977 and 2004).
Throughout the period from 1977 to 2004, Minnesota's female
imprisonment rate was also substantially lower than the average
female imprisonment rate across the states, and its rate of
growth was much slower. With a female imprisonment rate of
21 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents in 2004,
Minnesota is among the 10 least punitive states in its imprisonment
of female offenders (ranked 46th).
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. Minnesota's 1977
ratio was slightly lower than average with 24 male prisoners
for every female prisoner. By 2004, Minnesota's male to female
imprisonment ratio (15:1) was slightly higher than the average
across states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Minnesota has 9 correctional facilities. Of Minnesota's nine
correctional facilities, seven house male prisoners only,
one houses female prisoners only, and one houses both male
and female prisoners.
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