Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff was quoted in a Business Insider article about the rising incarceration rate of women in the United States.
John Pfaff noted on Twitter that while the country’s jail population may be 745,000, that number is totaled just once a year, and so doesn’t show the 11 million jail admissions that occur throughout the course of each year.
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Pfaff also noted that while the rate of women’s incarcerations between 1970 and 2014 may have quadrupled, men still account for nearly 83 percent of the overall increase in jail populations.