Prison Inequality: Women and Race --and a Stunning, but Unsurprising Oversight. [View all]

"Quiet Mike" has a lot to say about the inequality in US Justice System, how it is unfair to women and other minorities. Let me quote a bit:

http://quietmike.org/2015/01/31/prison-inequality-women-race/

I have long considered myself a feminist, although I suppose feminist women would say I am a feminist-supporter. I always find myself considering issues that women encounter, regardless of their race or ethnicity.

Rather than focus on the media events these last few months, I want to bring up what I consider a serious issue of social inequality. It is statistically recognizable that women and minorities experience blatant social inequality in our judicial system, perhaps more so than outside of that system.

I wonder if you are aware that the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 2.2 million people in prison or jails, and 4,781,300 people were on probation or parole in 2012, for a total of 6,937,600 people in America under some form of criminal justice supervision.

According to The Sentencing Project, in their fact sheet on Incarcerated Women, about 200,000 women were serving sentences in 2012, and more than 1 million were under the supervision of the criminal justice system, which included those on parole and probation.

If you've ALREADY spotted the rather massive elephant in the room here, 100 points for you. If not, let me do the math for you according to "Quiet Mike's" OWN numbers.......

2.2 million people in prison MINUS 200,000 women? That's umm, 2 million MEN in prison.

So the criminal justice system is unfair to WOMEN? Wait, that can't be true. 200,00 women to 2 million men? Let me look that up! ...

Yup, it's true. Men are incarcerated at a rate of 10x more than women. So cry some more about the war on women in US prisons.