The Indiana Women’s Prison History Project

The Indiana Women’s Prison History Project was founded by a group of incarcerated scholars at the Indiana Women’s Prison. The author of Who Would Believe a Prisoner? (The New Press), the group has garnered national acclaim in the media and among scholarly organizations and was awarded the Indiana History Outstanding Project for 2016 by the Indiana Historical Society.

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News and Reviews

Inquest

Read an excerpt from Who Would Believe a Prisoner? in Inquest.

The New Yorker

Read a review of Who Would Believe a Prisoner? in The New Yorker.

The 19th

Read an interview with the editors of Who Would Believe a Prisoner? in The 19th.

Publishers Weekly

Read a review of Who Would Believe a Prisoner? in Publishers Weekly.

Books by The Indiana Women’s Prison History Project

Who Would Believe a Prisoner?
Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920

The Indiana Women’s Prison History Project