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According to a November 2017 report by the World Prison Brief around 212,000 of the 714,000 female prisoners worldwide (women and girls) are incarcerated in the United States. [11] In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [12] [13]
All categories of crime decreased in 2012 from 2011, except for robbery, which saw a 4.6% increase. Louisiana's overall crime rate, at 4,037.5, ranked fourth among U.S. states in 2012. Among the ten largest cities in Louisiana, the town of Alexandria had the highest crime rate at 9,174.6 crimes per 100,000 people.
Pages in category "Women's prisons in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
(The Center Square) — In Louisiana, violent and property crime numbers across the state have dropped from recent years. Despite this, a survey earlier this year from the Manship School at LSU ...
Louisiana, a state grappling with one of the highest rates of incarceration and violent crime in the country, is on the cusp of overhauling parts of its criminal justice system as the state's GOP ...
This is a list of adult state prisons in Louisiana. It does not include federal prisons or parish jails located in the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections directly operates all except two. Allen Correctional Center; Avoyelles Correctional Center - As of 2012, the state planned to privatize Avoyelles [1]
A recent initiative to fight violent crime in northwest Louisiana resulted in 61 arrests, 17 seized firearms and various confiscated narcotics, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
Although women form a minority in the global prison population, the population of incarcerated women is growing at a rate twice as fast as the male prison population. [5] Those imprisoned in China, Russia, and the United States comprise the great majority of incarcerated people, including women, in the world. [ 6 ]