At the same time as there is growing juvenile incarceration, the number of women prisoners is mushrooming. Women are the fastest growing sector of the U.S. prison population. The number of women prisoners is already over 100,000. Reports of sexual abuse of women prisoners is growing dramatically. This includes a record 3.9 million men and women on probation or parole, another 600,000 in jail facilities and 1.2 million in prison.
More Blacks are now in prison than whites.
Black people are incarcerated at a rate eight times higher than whites. This clearly proves that racist inequality is riding high in U.S. capitalist society. Along with keeping people of color down, more and more Blacks, Latinos and other minorities are being arrested, prosecuted, and receiving longer sentences for the same convictions as whites. This is the residue of centuries of slavery and other forms of oppression which lie deep in this corrupt system. At the same time, the private sector has jumped into the frying pan at an explosive rate, proposing to build more prison space at a discount to state and federal bureaucracies.