Menu
  • Excerpts
  • Exhibits
  • Collections
  • Originals
  • Categories
  • Map
  • Search
Book

Who Would Believe a Prisoner?

Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920
  • Michelle Daniel Jones
  • Elizabeth Angeline Nelson
2023
The New Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Loading...

  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  

Featured Excerpts

  • The front of the Midgeville asylum in Georgia
    Book Review

    What Makes a Prison?

    Wherever we find the state engaged in potentially lethal repression, we find prison.
    by Dan Berger via Public Books on November 1, 2023
  • Women feeding chickens at the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls.
    Q&A

    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
  • How Bunk Works
  • Who We Are
  • About Bunk
  • Recommend a Resource
  • Bunk on Instagram
  • Bunk on Twitter
  • Bunk on Bluesky
brought to you by
© Bunk History