{"id":6604,"date":"2017-02-15T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T08:08:06","slug":"incarceration-rate-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-people-three-times-the-general-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/incarceration-rate-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-people-three-times-the-general-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarceration Rate of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual People Three Times the General Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Los Angeles (Pahichan) February 15<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A new study by scholars at the Williams Institute\u00a0found\u00a0that sexual minorities are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates, and once incarcerated they are more likely to experience mistreatment, harsh punishment, and sexual victimization.\u00a0Approximately 238,000 sexual minorities are incarcerated in the United States. The nationwide incarceration rate of sexual minorities was previously unknown.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMass incarceration in the United States cannot be addressed without considering the over incarceration of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people,\u201d said Williams Distinguished Senior Scholar Ilan H. Meyer, PhD. The new study,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meyer_Final_Proofs.LGB_.In_.pdf\">Incarceration Rates and Traits of Sexual Minorities in the United States: National Inmate Survey, 2011\u20132012,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is the first to\u00a0consider\u00a0incarcerated sexual minority men and women separately.\u00a0\u00a0Published in\u00a0the <em>American Journal of Public Health<\/em>, it is co-authored by Ilan H. Meyer, PhD, Andrew R. Flores, PhD, Lara Stemple, JD, Adam\u00a0P. Romero, JD, Bianca D.M. Wilson, PhD, and Jody L. Herman, PhD.<a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.2-330x330-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6607\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.2-330x330-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.2-330x330-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.2-330x330-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.2-330x330-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.2-330x330-1.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sexual minorities, defined as people who self-identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) and people who do not identify as LGB but reported\u00a0a same-sex sexual experience, were disproportionately incarcerated:\u00a09.3 percent\u00a0of men in prison, 6.2 percent\u00a0of men in jail, 42.1 percent\u00a0of women in prison, and 35.7 percent\u00a0of women in jail were sexual minorities.<\/li>\n<li>Lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals make up about 3.5 percent\u00a0of the U.S. general population but 5.5 percent of men in prisons are gay or bisexual and 33.3 percent\u00a0of women in prison are lesbian or bisexual.<\/li>\n<li>Among the approximately 238,000 sexual minorities held in prisons and jails, there are approximately 94,900 gay and bisexual men, 69,600 MSM (men who have sex with men but do not identify as gay\/bisexual), 56,400 lesbian and bisexual women, and 17,000 WSW (women who have sex with women but do not identify as lesbian or bisexual).<\/li>\n<li>This corresponds to an incarceration rate of 1,882 per 100,000 LGB people, or 2,368 per 100,000 gay or bisexual men and 1,399 per 100,000 lesbians or bisexual women. By comparison, the general incarceration rate is 612 per 100,000 U.S. adults over age 18.<\/li>\n<li>Compared with straight inmates, sexual minorities were more likely to have been sexually victimized as children, to have been sexually victimized while incarcerated, to have experienced solitary confinement and other sanctions, and to report current psychological distress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.1-330x330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6606\" src=\"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.1-330x330-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.1-330x330-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.1-330x330-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.1-330x330-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/incar.1-330x330.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI hope this research also raises awareness of the heightened risk that sexual minority populations face for sexual victimization, isolation, disproportionate punishment, and distress,\u201d said researcher Dr. Ilan H. Meyer. \u00a0\u201cWe need to understand more about the pathways that lead to greater incarceration of LGB people and whether biases ingrained in the criminal justice system lead to sexual minorities being treated differently than heterosexuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers drew their data from the National Inmate Survey, 2011\u20132012, a probability\u00a0sample of inmates in U.S. prisons and jails mandated by the prison rape\u00a0elimination act of 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Copy :\u00a0http:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles (Pahichan) February 15\u00a0\u2013 A new study by scholars at the Williams Institute\u00a0found\u00a0that sexual minorities are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates, and once incarcerated they are more likely to experience mistreatment, harsh punishment, and sexual victimization.\u00a0Approximately 238,000 sexual minorities are incarcerated in the United States. 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