Status Updates From The Women's House of Detent...

So sad and informative!

“As slavery was abolished and New York’s Black population grew, prisons took on the punishments and persecution that had once been the provenance of the owners of enslaved people…at the same time, as white women moved further into the public sphere, the legal system took on the patriarchical duties of their families: the violent enforcement of virtue, chastity, femininity, submissiveness, motherhood, etc”