Transgenders in Federal Prison: 15.3% of Prisoners in Women’s Prison are Men, 0.5% of Prisoners in Men’s Prison are Women

January 30, 2025 in News by RBN Staff

 

Source: CrimeResearch.org

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has numbers on the sex of inmates. Of the 10,025 people in federal women’s prisons, 1,529 are men or 15.3%. Of the 143,714 people in federal men’s prisons, 744 are women or 0.5%. So-called transgender females are thus greater over represented in federal prisons relative to their share of women.

 

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