The female incarceration rates are out pacing male offenders in most jurisdictions. NIC 's  Information Center has an updated "Annotated Bibliography on Women Offenders: Prisons, Jails, Community Corrections, and Juvenile Justice". The resource list includes references from 2001-2006 that are available online. The links are not activated within the documents, however, just type them into your URL address and you can download them. Statistics are available at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs. 

NIC has just published the curriculum "How to Be More Effective Supervising Women Offenders in the Communitiy." The instructor's guide is on CD, the participant guide is in print format.  http://info.nicic.org/RMS/myAccount/?myDocs=021454.