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Monic M Lewis
"Black women are three-fourths of the record-setting number of females in state and local prisons, according to a criminal justice expert.
"The penetration of the prison system into the black family is extraordinary," Vincent Schiraldi, of the Justice Policy Center, told BlackAmericaWeb.com Monday.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 101,179 women were in state or federal prisons by the end of 2003, the first time the number of females behind bars exceeded 100,000. In 1990, there were just 44,000 women in state or federal prisons. "
