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Fry reading to inmates in Newgate prison. In 1827, Fry visited women's prisons and other places of female confinement in Ireland. She encouraged the women of Belfast to organise their own committee to improve conditions in the women's poorhouse. [24] [25] After her husband went bankrupt in 1828, Fry's brother became her business manager and ...
Hannah B. Chickering (July 29, 1817 – July 3, 1879) was a prison reformer in the late 19th-century, who worked to establish separate prisons for female inmates in Massachusetts and founded the Temporary Asylum for discharged female prisoners which later became known as the Dedham Temporary Home for Women and Children, which operated between 1864 and 1969 in Dedham, MA.
Emma Amelia Hall (February 28, 1837 – December 27, 1884) was an American prison reformer and administrator. [1] [2] [3] In July 1881, she became the first superintendent of Michigan's Girls Training School at Adrian, Michigan and eventually was the first woman to head a state institution in Michigan. [4]
The Auburn correctional facility was the first prison to profit from prisoner labor. To ensure silence and to compel prisoners to work, agent Lynds, at first hired to oversee construction and command workers, used several methods of violence and coercion. [8] The prison had many sightseers in the 19th century.
Women in Plymouth, England, parting from their lovers who are about to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792. Penal transportation (or simply transportation) was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination.
Women have served as prison and correctional officers since the early 19th century in London. The focus of research on female correctional officers has mostly been comparatively discussing the male officers' experience versus the female officer's experience. A number of studies are extensions of interviews or surveys solely of corrections staff ...
Ann Carson (born Ann Baker) (c. 1785–1824) was an early nineteenth-century American criminal who was described by biographers as "the most captivating beauty of the underworld and the most notorious character in the State" of Pennsylvania.
Sarah Martin (1791 – 15 October 1843) was a prison visitor and philanthropist. [1] She was born at Great Yarmouth ; and lived in nearby Caister . She earned her living by dressmaking , and devoted much of her time amongst criminals in the Tolhouse Gaol in Great Yarmouth.