What state had the first state-run "Women's prison"?
When the Indiana Women's Prison opened in 1873, it was described as the first state-run women's prison facility in the entire country.
Even before that, though, privately run prisons for women - many of them known as "Magdalene Laundries" and overseen by orders of Catholic nuns - existed in the Hoosier state and elsewhere.
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