Women Prison

Some articles on prison, women, prisons:

List Of Correctional Facilities In New Zealand - Southern Region - Arohata Women's Prison
... Arohata Prison is one of New Zealand's three women's prisons and is located near Tawa, north of Wellington.The name Arohata means ‘the bridge’ in Maori and reflects the belief that the ... The prison was built in 1944 and was originally a women’s borstal ... It became a youth prison in 1981 and a women’s prison in 1987 ...
List Of Correctional Facilities In New Zealand - Southern Region - Christchurch Women’s Prison
... Christchurch Women's Prison is one of three female prisons in New Zealand ... The prison opened in 1974 when prisoners and staff transferred to the site from Dunedin Prison and Christchurch Prison’s Women’s Division ... The prison remains the only women’s prison in the South Island ...
Indiana Women's Prison - Early History
... Established in 1873, the Indiana Women’s Prison was not only the United States’ first separate institution for female prisoners, but was also the first maximum-securit ... had been detained at the Indiana State Prison, located first in Jeffersonville and later in Clarksville ... When Quaker prison reformers Rhoda Coffin and Sarah J ...

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or women:

    “People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don’t know where to go.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    “If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
    —Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)