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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 64 (41st) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
5 (38th)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 246 (42nd) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 42 (35th)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 30
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 502
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 1,573%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 12%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 54%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN UTAH
At
year-end 2004, Utah prisons housed 5,916 inmates serving sentences
of more than one year. Of these inmates, 5,414 were male and
502 were female. Utah ranked 35th in its 2004 female imprisonment
rate with 42 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents,
and 42nd in its 2004 overall imprisonment rate with 246 prisoners
per 100,000 residents.
In
1977, Utah prisons housed 30 female inmates; by 2004, the
female prison population had reached 502. Utah's female prison
population was at its lowest with 27 female prisoners in 1980
and peaked at 502 female inmates in 2004.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Utah's female prison population grew by 1,573%
with an average annual percent change of 12.2% per year.
Throughout
the period from 1977 to 2004, Utah's female imprisonment rate
was consistently and substantially lower than the average
female imprisonment rate across the states. With a female
imprisonment rate of 42 female prisoners per 100,000 female
residents, Utah was among the 15 least punitive states in
its imprisonment of female offenders in 2004 (ranked 45th).
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. Utah's 1977 ratio
was equivalent to average across states with 26 male prisoners
for every female prisoner. In 2004, Utah's male to female
imprisonment ratio (11:1) was lower than the average across
states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Utah has nine correctional facilities. Of Utah's nine correctional
facilities, five house male prisoners only and four house
both male and female prisoners. No facility houses only female
prisoners.
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