User:Medium-Ferret/Incarceration of men draft article

This article discusses the subset of the incarcerated population that is male. Men make up a large majority of the prison population globally, although this varies by country ranging from a minimum of 80% in Hong Kong to a maximum of 98% male in countries such as Israel, Malawi and Ghana.^[1]

See: List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate, which lists the gender ratio of each nation's prison population.

Sexual Violence

US Prisons:

Prevelance of Rape and Sexual Assault

- Human Rights Watch Report "No Escape, Male Rape in US Prisons" [1]

- Sexual Violence Inside Prisons: Rates of Victimization [2]

- Incarceration & social inequality [3]

Prison Rape Elimination Act (2003)

Other relevant Wiki articles:

- Prison_Rape

- Prison_rape_in_the_United_States

- Rape_of_males

References

^ Highest to Lowest. World Prison Brief (WPB). Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by region, or the whole world. Use menu to select highest-to-lowest lists of prison population totals, prison population rates, percentage of pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners, percentage of female prisoners, percentage of foreign prisoners, and occupancy rate. Column headings in WPB tables can be clicked to reorder columns lowest to highest, or alphabetically. For detailed information for each country click on any country name in lists. The individual country pages also give the date of the data. See also the WPB main data page and click on the map links and/or the sidebar links to get to the region and country desired. Please update the tables here only from this WPB source.

[WorldPrisonBrief-1] Highest to Lowest. World Prison Brief (WPB). Use dropdown menu to choose lists of countries by region, or the whole world. Use menu to select highest-to-lowest lists of prison population totals, prison population rates, percentage of pre-trial detainees / remand prisoners, percentage of female prisoners, percentage of foreign prisoners, and occupancy rate. Column headings in WPB tables can be clicked to reorder columns lowest to highest, or alphabetically. For detailed information for each country click on any country name in lists. The individual country pages also give the date of the data. See also the WPB main data page and click on the map links and/or the sidebar links to get to the region and country desired. Please update the tables here only from this WPB source.

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