This collection of essays seeks to recapture the perspective on women’s prison experience from a range of viewpoints. Due to the consistent small populations and relative neglect the women often faced, their experiences in prison have been understudied. Various attempts to reform them, ranging from moral instruction and education to domestic training, faced opposition at times from state officials, prison employees, and even male prison reformers. Early on, they were often held in prisons alongside men and faced neglect, exploitation, and poor living conditions. Historically, women incarcerated in prison, jails, and reformatories accounted for a small number of inmates across the United States. The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention.
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