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  • Women feeding chickens at the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls.

    The Forgotten History of America’s First Public Women’s Prison

    The editors of a new book talk about the history of the Indiana facility — written by people who were held there almost 150 years later.
    by Candice Norwood, Elizabeth Nelson, Michelle Daniel Jones via The 19th on March 23, 2023
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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920
Michelle Daniel Jones, Elizabeth Angeline Nelson
2023
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