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Vermont
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 57 (43rd) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
4 (43rd)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 233 (43rd) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 25 (45th)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 9
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 80
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 789%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 17%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 95%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN VERMONT
At
year-end 2004, Vermont prisons housed 1,451 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 1,371 were
male and 80 were female. Vermont is among the ten least punitive
states both in overall imprisonment and female imprisonment.
Vermont ranked 45th in its 2004 female imprisonment rate with
25 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents, and 43rd
in its 2004 overall imprisonment rate with 233 prisoners per
100,000 residents.
In
1977, Vermont prisons housed nine female inmates; by 2004,
the female prison population had reached 80. Vermont's female
prison population was at its lowest with four female prisoners
in 1986 and peaked at 84 female inmates in 2003.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Vermont's female prison population grew by
789% with an average annual percent change of 16.8% per year.
Throughout
the period from 1977 to 2004, Vermont's female imprisonment
rate was substantially lower than the average female imprisonment
rate across the states. With a female imprisonment rate of
25 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents, Vermont
is among the 10 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. Vermont's 1977 ratio
was substantially higher than average with 41 male prisoners
for every female prisoner. In 2004, Vermont's male to female
imprisonment ratio (17:1) remained somewhat higher - though
less dramatically so - than the average across states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Vermont has nine correctional facilities. Of Vermont'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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