Answer provided by the U.S. Department of
Justice, National Institute of Justice
There are no definitive statistics available
regarding this query. However, according to
staff at the American Correctional Association (http://www.aca.org/),
there are approximately 90,000 female
correctional officers employed by state, local,
and juvenile correctional facilities in the
United States.
We did a further check using more detailed
statistics through NCJRS and according to the
Census of State and Federal Correctional
Facilities, 2000 (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/csfcf00.pdf)
there were 141,727 female correctional officers
employed in Federal, State, and private
facilities at midyear 2000.
As an aside, according to the Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics 2003 (http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t1108.pdf),
with data provided by the Federal Bureau of
Prisons, 2,008 female correctional officers were
employed by the BOP as of January 2004.
