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They've made gender equality "advances" in other areas, why not in prison population?
Women made up 7 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly one in four arrests, the government reported Sunday.
The number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons in 2004 was up 4 percent compared with 2003, more than double the 1.8 percent increase among men, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported. In 1995, women made up 6.1 percent of inmates in those facilities.
The total number of people incarcerated grew 1.9 percent in 2004 to 2,267,787.
