Study: Women account for
nearly one in four arrests
BY REBECCA CARROLL
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Women made up
seven percent of all inmates in state
and federal prisons last year and ac
counted for nearly one in four arrests,
the government reported Sunday.
Co-author of a Bureau of Justice
Statistics report Paige Harrison linked
an upswing in the rate of arrest for
women to their increased participa
tion in drug crimes, violent crimes
and fraud.
The number of women incarcer
ated in state and federal prisons in
2004 was up four percent compared
with 2003, more than double the 1.8
percent increase among men, the
study said. In 1995, women made
up 6.1 percent of all inmates in
those facilities.
“The number of incarcerated
women has been growing ... due in
large part to sentencing policies in
the war in drugs,” The Sentencing
Project, a group promoting alterna
tives to prison, said in a statement.
The group said the number of
drug offenders in prisons and jails
has risen from 40,000 in 1980 to
more than 450,000 today. According
to FBI figures, law officers in 2004
made more arrests for drug viola
tions than for any other offense —
about 1.7 million arrests, or 12.5
percent of all arrests.
Those sentenced for drug offens
es made up 55 percent of federal in
mates in 2003, the report said.
The total number of people incar
cerated grew 1.9 percent in 2004 to
2,267,787 people. That figure in
cludes federal and state prisoners,
as well as 713,990 inmates held in
local jails, 15,757 prisoners in U.S.
territorial prisons, 9,788 in immigra
tion and customs facilities, 2,177 in
military facilities, 1,826 in Indian
Country jails and 102,338 in
juvenile facilities.
The country’s state and federal
prison population — 1,421,911,
which excludes state and federal
prisoners in local jails — grew 2.6
percent in 2004, compared with an
average growth of 3.4 percent a year
since 1995.
Growth last year in federal prison
populations was 5.5 percent, out
pacing overall prisoner growth but
slipping from the 7.4 average annu
al growth in federal prison popula
tions since 1995. The number of in
mates in state prisons rose 1.8
percent, with about half that growth
in Georgia, Florida and California.
Harrison attributed some of the
prison population rise to tougher
sentencing policies implemented in
the late 1990s. She said the average
time served by prisoners today is
seven months longer than it was
in 1995.
“You bring more people in, you
keep them longer — inevitably you’re
going to have growth,” she said.
The Sentencing Project said the
continued rise in prisoners despite
falling crime rates raises questions
about the country’s imprisonment
system. The group said the incarcer
ation rate — 724 per 100,000 — is
25 percent higher than that of any
other nation.
“Policy-makers would be wise to
reconsider the wisdom of current
sentencing and drug policies, both
to avoid expensive incarceration
costs and to invest in more produc
tive prevention and treatment ap
proaches to crime,” Marc Mauer,
the group’s executive director, said
in a statement.
Another group, The Justice Policy
Institute in Washington, said the
statistics show little relationship be
tween prison population growth
and the crime rate, which has been
falling in recent years.
“The nation does not have to lock
more people up to have safer com
munities,” said Jason Ziedenberg,
the institute’s executive director.
About 8.4 percent of the coun
try’s black males between the ages
of 25 and 29 are in state or federal
prison, compared with 2.5 percent
of Hispanic males and 1.2 percent of
white males in the same age group,
the report said.
Blacks made up an estimated 41
percent of inmates with a sentence of
more than one year, the report said.
ADFC: Decision will be made Wednesday
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stop dodging around issues.”
Brown suggested punishing stu
dents who are removed from home
games multiple times for “unclassy”
behavior by revoking their privi
leges to attend future home games.
The Senate Rules Committee and
ADFC Senators met Friday to begin
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to be. ”
“Some of the people that we’re
hearing from are just noticing that
change and not liking it, and I don’t
know what we can do about that
because that’s a lot bigger than a
football game or the city of Eugene.
It’s society,” McBride said.
McBride said alcohol fuels the
problem, but said he and the Athlet
ics Department have not figured out
what to do about it.
He said that some people come to
games unrealistically expecting peo
ple to always act properly, particular
ly when they bring young children.
“We’re dealing with a much broad
er range of complaints than are really
valid,” McBride said. “Let’s act like
we’ve all been there before.”
McBride suggested that students
use peer pressure to discourage neg
ative behavior in the stands.
Several Senators said a final deci
sion will be made Wednesday evening
at the Student Senate meeting.
The 11 ASPAC members will also
brainstorm ideas to help eliminate
the problem.
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