For the most part, the movie and television industries tend to focus on the experiences of men in prison. The bias isn’t something worth complaining about, because men get incarcerated way more than women. According to the most recent data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, there are 144,000 men in American correctional facilities and only 10,000 women. Why more men go to prison is a whole other topic, but the creators of fictional tales about inmates cannot be faulted for churning out more scripts about men.
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