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A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of
incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the
first women's prison What if prisoners were to write the history of
their own prison? What might that tell them-and all of us-about the
roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions of
Americans? In this groundbreaking and revelatory volume, a group of
incarcerated women at the Indiana Women's Prison have assembled a
chronicle of what was originally known as the Indiana Reformatory
Institute for Women and Girls, founded in 1873 as the first totally
separate prison for women in the United States. In an effort that
has already made the national news, and which was awarded the
Indiana History Outstanding Project for 2016 by the Indiana
Historical Society, the Indiana Women's Prison History Project
worked under conditions of sometimes-extreme duress, excavating
documents, navigating draconian limitations on what information
incarcerated scholars could see or access, and grappling with the
unprecedented challenges stemming from co-authors living on either
side of the prison walls. With contributions from ten incarcerated
or formerly incarcerated women, the result is like nothing ever
produced in the historical literature: a document that is at once a
shocking revelation of the roots of America's first prison for
women, and also a meditation on incarceration itself. Who Would
Believe a Prisoner? is a book that will be read and studied for
years to come as the nation continues to grapple with the crisis of
mass incarceration.
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