Are there more men or women in prison

Question

I am a girl and i asked my step mom and she said more women. I thought therewere more men but to be sure i asked what do u mean no action im 12

Answer 1

There are more men in prisons. There are many reasons varying from a simple crime to feed their families to mass murdering with out any remorse.

Answer 2

Men, by far.

Answer 3

I am a man and I agree with Phyllis G, so long as she agrees that all women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen.  this is because her tiny, delicate female mind is incapable of rational thought.

See you behind bars honey!

Answer 4

Way more men... there are 93 men for every 7 women in prison.

Now that's rather interesting, isn't it?

Answer 5

Most prisoners are male.

Answer 6

Prison is one of the few places feminism has made little progress, it's still predominately male.

Answer 7

Do a quick google of female prisons. You'll see that there are far fewer.

Answer 8

Yes! I believe there are more men than women in marriage.

Answer 9

there are more men in prison but that's because women get scotch free when it comes to crimes and because those idiot judges arrest a man even if he's innocent.

there should be more women in prison though.

Answer 10

There are obviously more men in prision.

Or you can google/wiki.

Answer 11

Someone isn't getting any action tonight.  At any rate, men far number women in prison.

EDIT- Sorry, Hannah, I am obviously not talking about you, but a couple answers above me.

Answer 12

There are definitely more men in prisons. Men and women's prisons are separate. Look at how many male prisons there are compared to female prisons and the size difference, women's prisons are much smaller and there are less of them.

Answer 13

There are a lot more men in prison, especially in maximum security prisons.

Answer 14

Right at the moment, there are proportionately more men than women in prison. ♥ ∞

Answer 15

Laws and prisons have always been designed to protect only the upper "classes", the elites, the propertied.  The rise of men into legal protections for their rights has been all about changing the justice system to protect EVERYONE, not just the rich. Historically men have been imprisoned by the droves simply due to poverty and what poverty forces people to do to survive, like poaching.  A society that operates from the Master / Slave perspective creates the conditions that causes the elements of poverty and then, rather than correct the system, those in power just imprison men who suffer the consequences of those elite self-serving systems.  

Imprisoning droves of men has also been an historical means of generating slave labor, of conscription / forcing men into militaries, of wrenching unfairly the property and holdings from men and of removing from the workforce and warehousing men in prisons to manage unemployment and it's subsequent rise in crimes of poverty.  People like Bush support for-profit prisons ran by private companies, like Halliburton.  Do you trust men like that to address the social fundamental causes of poverty crimes if those kind of men are instead making a buck off imprisoning men that tax-payers have to pay for?  

Sure, there are more men in prisons than women, and for many reasons not so draconian as elites preying on them or treating them like excess livestock in their economic tweakings. But WAY too many men are in jail and putting people in jail is unacceptable in lieu of fixing the causes of crimes, like stop slashing funds for public education, stop out-sourcing jobs to other nations, stop building gated communities and work on securing safe communities for ALL, and stop supporting the gun industry.  There's also a sick religious influence of wanting "punishment" and an eye-for-an-eye c**p, of fixing the blame instead of fixing the problem.  But, you'll never see rich men getting jail sentences for their high crimes of outrageously robbing the rest of us as severe as average working-class guys get for just, say, breaking a storefront window in a riot.  See: Enron.

Here is Clarence Darrow's famous speech about why so many men are in jail:

http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/darrow.htm