Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920 (The Indiana Women's Prison History Proje)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women's prison What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them-and all of us--about the roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions of Americans?
In this groundbreaking and revelatory volume, a group of incarcerated women at the Indiana Women's Prison have assembled a chronicle of what was originally known as the Indiana Reformatory Institute for Women and Girls, founded in 1873 as the first totally separate prison for women in the United States. In an effort that has already made the national news, and which was awarded the Indiana History Outstanding Project for 2016 by the Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana Women's Prison History Project worked under conditions of
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