Greenhouse gases and aero-sols affect climate by altering incoming solar radiation and out-going infrared (thermal) radiation that are part of Earthâs energy balance. Changing the atmospheric abundance or properties of these gases and particles can lead to a warming or cooling of the climate system.
Michelle Jones, February 2015. The Indiana Womenâs Prison (IWP), founded in 1873 in Indianapolis, is often described as the first separate prison for women in the United States.
The 1980s were a time of tough on crime laws, which ushered in an era of mandatory sentencing and three strikes laws. At the start of the decade, approximately 13,000 women were in prison, representing 4 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons.Over the next 20 years, the rates of incarceration accelerated, with the rate of increase for women surpassing that of men in the same time period.By 2010, women represented 7 percent of the prison population. Most of the more than 200,000 women currently in prison are there for non-violent offenses.A quarter of women in prison are there because of drug related crimes, compared with only 17 percent of the male population.s with everything in America, race also matters. More than 60 percent of the prison population is African-American or Latino. In 2000, black women were incarcerated at a rate six times the rate of white women.