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Wyoming Report
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Wyoming
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IMPRISONMENT
AT A GLANCE
Imprisonment
Rate 1977: 98 (24th) Female Imprisonment Rate 1977:
8 (24th)
Imprisonment Rate 2004: 389 (27th) Female Imprisonment
Rate 2004: 84 (9th)
Total
Female Sentenced Prisoners 1977: 16
Total Female Sentenced Prisoners 2004: 210
Percent
Increase 1977-2004: 1,213%
Average Annual Percent Increase 1977-2004: 12%
Percent Increase 1999-2004: 51%
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IMPRISONMENT
IN WYOMING
At
year-end 2004, Wyoming prisons housed 1,980 inmates serving
sentences of more than one year. Of these inmates, 1,770 were
male and 210 were female. Wyoming ranked 9th in its 2004 female
imprisonment rate with 84 female prisoners per 100,000 female
residents, and 27th in its 2004 overall imprisonment rate
with 389 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
In
1977, Wyoming prisons housed 16 female inmates; by 2004, the
female prison population had reached 210. Wyoming's female
prison population was at its lowest with 16 female prisoners
in 1977 and peaked at 210 female inmates in 2004.
GROWTH
IN FEMALE IMPRISONMENT RATE
Between
1977 and 2004, Wyoming's female prison population grew by
1,213% with an average annual percent change of 11.6% per
year.
Wyoming's
female imprisonment rate grew more erratically than in other
states through the period from 1977 to 2004. Its female imprisonment
rate tended to rise and fall, sometimes quite substantially,
from year to year. By the mid-1990s, Wyoming female imprisonment
rate was above average. With a female imprisonment rate of
84 female prisoners per 100,000 female residents, Wyoming
was among the 10 most punitive states in its imprisonment
of female offenders in 2004 (ranked 9th).
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. Wyoming's 1977 ratio
was slightly lower than average with 24 male prisoners for
every female prisoner. In 2004, Wyoming's male to female imprisonment
ratio (8:1) was substantially lower than the average across
states.
CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES
According
to the 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities,
Wyoming has nine correctional facilities. Of Wyoming's nine
correctional facilities, four house male prisoners only, one
houses female prisoners only, and four house both male and
female prisoners.
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