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history of women's prisons  

Definition

  • Women throughout history have been imprisoned with men in refuges, workhouses and houses of correction, jails, debtor's prisons, chain gangs, penitentiaries, reformatories, and correctional institutions. Even so, their presence, and not infrequently that of their babies as well, was (and is) often overlooked in official documents and historical accounts. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; History of Women's Prisons]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MX8SQ01V-B

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