Locked In
Ever since America's first women's prison opened nearly 200 years ago, debate has raged over how to treat female inmates.
WOMEN'S PRISONS have long been lugubrious places in popular imagination, salacious versions of men's prisons where intimidatingly butch women struggle for social dominance between sex romps on the side. The image is so entrenched that many women sent to prison think this is how it will be. They're as surprised as anyone to find that the woman sharing their cell ... (Full article: 2053 words)
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