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    The Indiana Women's Prison was established in 1873 as the first adult female correctional facility in the country. The original location of the prison was...
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    Facility (Minimum security) - Plainfield Indiana State Prison (Maximum security) - Michigan City Indiana Women's Prison (Maximum security) - Indianapolis Indianapolis...
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  • prison for adult females in 1992. Before 1992, Indiana had only one women's prison, the Indiana Women's Prison, which was located in downtown Indianapolis...
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  • Murder of Shanda Sharer (category Violence against women in Indiana)
    parole. Loveless was released from Indiana Women's Prison on September 5, 2019. After serving 26+ years in prison, she will serve parole in Jefferson...
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    Sarah Jo Pender (category Escapees from Indiana detention)
    referred to Pender as her "wife" while they served time at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis. After being released, Long frequently visited Pender...
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    Murder of Sylvia Likens (category Violence against women in Indiana)
    life in prison. Over the course of the following 14 years, Gertrude Baniszewski became known as a model prisoner at the Indiana Women's Prison. She worked...
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  • Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced...
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    facility for women. FPC Alderson, which opened on April 30, 1927, as the Federal Industrial Institute for Women, was the first federal women's prison in the...
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  • location of the Indiana Women's Prison. In 1869, the Indiana State Legislature established the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls stating...
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    Prisons Violates the Right to Be a Mother". UCLA Women's Law Journal. 18 (1). doi:10.5070/L3181017816. Women's Prison Association, Institute on Women...
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