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1. www.cnn.com › 2024/06/12 › styleVintage polaroids of female prisoners paint an intimate ... - CNN

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   Jun 12, 2024 · Established in 1878 as a reformatory confining women for the crime of having children out of wedlock, by the 1970s much of the prison’s population were being held on counts of shoplifting and ...

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3. www.architecturaldigest.com › story › is-there-suchIs There Such a Thing as “Good” Prison Design?

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   Apr 30, 2018 · The U.S. provides room and board for 25 percent of the world’s total prison population, according to a report from the Prison Policy Initiative; that’s 2.3 million people—the equivalent of ...

4. www.anothermag.com › art-photography › 15610A Sensitive Portrait of an American Women’s Prison - AnOther

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   May 6, 2024 · While these images are only being formally published now, the initial idea to make them into a book came in the 1970s from a friend of Lueders-Booth’s, the legendary photographer Bruce Davidson (he also suggested the women narrate their images with their life stories). Lueders-Booth borrowed some recording equipment from Harvard and set up space in his prison office.

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5. www.vice.com › en › articleLonely and Alone: Photos of Life in a Female Penal Colony - VICE

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   Feb 5, 2016 · Read More: Photos of Women Villagers Who Run the Show in Rural Russia. In an interview with Broadly, Anosova talked about her work, how she gained the trust of the female prisoners, and her desire ...

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6. www.sahistory.org.za › archive › womens-jail-oldThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis

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   May 6, 2020 · While the Fort was demolished to become the court, the Women’s Jail became a museum honoring the women who suffered behind its walls. Women’s prisons, like the men’s, were absent of dignity and health. However, in addition to typical problems like inadequate food or mistreatment, women often experienced gender-based violence.

7. daily.jstor.org › history-of-womens-prisonsA History of Women's Prisons - JSTOR Daily

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   Mar 4, 2015 · The only women’s prison in the West until the 1960s was the California Institution for Women (CIW), established in 1933 originally as an extension of San Quentin, the oldest California prison. After a 1952 earthquake, CIW, then the largest women’s prison in the US, moved to Frontera, a feminized version of the word “frontier” meant to symbolize new beginnings, and was rebuilt to be a ...

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   What shaped women's prisons?

   • Women’s prisons, shaped by the ideologies of domesticity and ideals of motherhood, focused on restoring female and maternal qualities. Women required saving twice, firstly from their criminality and then from their deviance from anticipated female behaviour. This upturning of expectations had consequences.

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   Who designed prisons for female convicts?

   • Accommodation for women was often an afterthought, and the penal system devised for them was largely a modified version of that designed for male convicts. Sir Joshua Jebb, Head of the Convict Prisons Directorate, was the man tasked with designing new prisons for female convicts.

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   Why did female inmates resisted incarceration?

   • Many female inmates resisted. In July 1859, the Superintendent of Mountjoy Female Prison, Dublin, wrote in desperation to the Directors of Irish Convict Prisons about the “lunacy” of Mary Murray. Her conduct in prison had become “so outrageous and violent” that she had to be confined in a straitjacket.

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   Why did female prisoners resist disciplinary procedures in the 1800s?

   • Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies, and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s. Many female inmates resisted. In July 1859, the Superintendent of Mountjoy Female Prison, Dublin, wrote in desperation to the Directors of Irish Convict Prisons about the “lunacy” of Mary Murray.

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   Why is the Women's Jail important?

   • The Women’s Jail now acts as a testament not only to the women who suffered under the force of apartheid in this one prison, but for all women who endured seemingly unendurable hardships fighting for freedom in prisons across South Africa.

   The Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis

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   What problems did women face in prison?

   • Women’s prisons, like the men’s, were absent of dignity and health. However, in addition to typical problems like inadequate food or mistreatment, women often experienced gender-based violence. Frequently, women were jailed with their children or ripped away from them and barred from contact.

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9. brewminate.com › the-treatment-of-women-in-prisonThe Treatment of Women in Prison in the 19th Century - Brewminate

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   Dec 24, 2018 · Mary Murray was one of the many women confined in the new women-only convict prisons of Brixton in London (1853) and Mountjoy Female Convict Prison in Dublin (1858). The system of separate confinement – introduced to convict prisons in England in 1842 and Ireland in 1850 – was designed to strictly regulate male and female prisoners in body and in mind to produce deep-seated and lasting reform.