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"A Justice Department report finds that the number of women in state and federal prisons has increased to an all-time high and continues to grow at a steady rate, the Associated Press reported Nov. 8.
According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics report, there were 101,179 women in prisons in 2003, up 3.6 percent from 2002. It is the first time that the female prison population topped 100,000.
The report showed that the incarceration rate for women is increasing at nearly twice that of men. Since 1995, the number of women incarcerated has increased 48 percent, compared with 29 percent for male prisoners."
