Status Updates From Numbered: Inside Idaho's Pr...

Most Idahoan women had a legitimate reason forge checks. They simply couldn’t afford food for themselves or their children especially at a time when women did not work.

It’s fascinating learning about the reasons why women in Idaho in the 19th & 20th centuries got in trouble with the law and found themselves in the Idaho State Penitentiary. Some were valid reasons, but others were out of self-defense. The good thing is most of these women were freed earlier than their sentence out of sympathy from all-male juries or the Idaho Governors. Men prisoners wouldn’t get sympathy.

“Women are seven times more likely than men to murder with poison. Men prefer knives and guns.” Now I’m going to examine my drinks if a female gives me something to drink 😆

Bought this on my vacation to Idaho where I went inside a historic prison in Boise called Old Idaho Penitentiary. This book focuses on the women prisoners.