Prison

Prison Prison Drugs and crime over the last ten years have increased for women, at about twice the rate of drug use in men. In 1999 a survey of inmates in state correctional facilities, the percentage of women in prison for a drug offense exceeded that of men. (2000, Bureau of Justice statistics) Drug usage is the grounds for many women going to prison. Drug use is on the rise among women. Seventy-five thousand women are serving prison sentences in the United States; most of them are in prison for drug law violations. (1999, Boyd) These violations include possession, manufacturing and/or the sale of illegal drugs. Women are more likely than men to have used heroin or cocaine in the month before the offense for which they are serving time are. An estimated 72% of the women in prisons had used drugs prior to incarceration. Daily use of these major drugs in that month was also higher among women than men. (1991, Bureau of Justice statistics) This fact might be because more women admit to their drug use than men do. Women were more likely than men to report having been under the influence of major drugs at the time they women, prison, drug, men, drugs, statistics, crimes, years, violent, justice, crime, bureau, time, serving, one, murder, likely, female, committed, been, against, 1999, 1991, victims, ten, take, state, sale, rate, property, over, offense, number, major, living, life, last, increased, due, children, better, among, women’s, violations, under, twice, thousand, syndrome, seventy-five, robbery, report