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Nebraska Report
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Nebraska
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 83 (30th) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
9 (20th) Imprisonment Rate 2004: 230 (45th) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 39 (40th)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 73
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 348
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 377%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 7%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 44%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN NEBRASKA
At
year-end 2004, Nebraska prisons housed 4,038 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 3,690 were
male and 348 were female. With 39 female prisoners per 100,000
female residents, Nebraska ranked 40th in its 2004 female
imprisonment rate. With 230 prisoners per 100,000 residents,
Nebraska ranked 45th in its 2004 overall imprisonment rate.
In
1977, Nebraska prisons housed 73 female inmates; by 2004,
the female prison population had reached 348. Nebraska's female
prison population was at its lowest with 49 female prisoners
in 1979 and peaked at 348 female inmates in 2004.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Nebraska's female prison population grew by
377% with an average annual percent change of 7.0% per year.
With
the exception of 1977, when Nebraska's female imprisonment
rate was slightly higher than average, its imprisonment rate
was below average throughout the entire period from 1978 to
2004. Nebraska's female imprisonment rate of 39 female prisoners
per 100,000 females in 2004 was substantially lower than the
average female imprisonment rate across the states.
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. Nebraska's 1977
ratio was substantially lower than average with 17 male prisoners
for every female prisoner. In 2004, Nebraska's male to female
imprisonment ratio (11:1) remained lower than the average
across states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Nebraska has nine correctional facilities. Of Nebraska's nine
correctional facilities, six house male prisoners only, one
houses female prisoners only, and two house both male and
female prisoners.
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