“Sisters and State Building: The Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Carceral Infrastructure in 19th Century Colorado” by Hennessey Star
Aerial view of the House of the Good Shepherd via Denver Public Library (Public Domain). When the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project endeavored to study the “oldest” women’s prison in the United States they pointed not only to the Indiana Reformatory Institute for Women and Girls—the oldest state penitentiary built exclusively for women—but the Home of the…