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Posted: 2017-10-20T23:55:19Z | Updated: 2017-10-20T23:55:19Z

The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, and women are an important part of that equation. About a third of all female prisoners worldwide are locked up in the U.S., according to one frequently cited study , and more recent reports suggest those numbers may have risen over the past few years.

A new chart from the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative compiles federal data to give us a closer look at where the nations 219,000 incarcerated women are being held and for what. Although many of the trends are relatively consistent with the general incarcerated population which includes 2.3 million people behind bars in a sprawling network of prisons and jails some are amplified when looking exclusively at women.