In the time leading up to the Civil War and immediately after, female inmates were subjected to the vilest conditions behind bars-no individualized care, no cells, no rehabilitation, and sexual abuse. It was a significant step in the eyes of many women who, for years, had advocated change in women's incarceration. In 1869, the first independent, all-female prison opened in the United States. From Hopelessness to Hope: Surveying the Women's Prison Reformatory Movement
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