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Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then an Assistant U.S. Attorney General, first encouraged establishment of a facility for women. [9] FPC Alderson, which opened on April 30, 1927, as the Federal Industrial Institute for Women, [10] was the first federal women's prison in the United States. [11]
The Correctional Institution for Women was founded on November 27, 1929, ... M. L. Stewart: 1910 – 1914 W.H. Dade: 1914 – 1920 Julius W. Quillen: 1920 – 1923
Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist from Hartford, Connecticut.She was the first known American woman to publicly lecture on the abolitionist movement.
Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) is a prison for women with its permanent pre-2016 facility located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, United States. It is the only female correctional facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center is immediately west of LCIW. [1]
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (formerly the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women) [1] is a prison facility for women of the state of New Jersey Department of Corrections, located in Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, [2] [3] near Clinton. [4] Its official abbreviation is EMCFW. The facility was named for Edna Mahan (b ...
Every day, they fan out across the prison, serving as something between a therapist and life coach to the roughly 2,100 women incarcerated at the facility, one of two women's prisons in California.
The 3-on-3 women’s basketball league co-founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier debuted Friday night. The two squared off in the opening game and fittingly Stewart scored the ...
Woman's Institute of Yonkers (originally known as Free Circulating Library for Self-Supporting Women; est. 1880) was an American social service experiment in 19th-century Yonkers, New York that grew into a far-reaching charitable, relief work institution for women. [1] It is Yonkers' oldest social service agency. [2]