I: Development of the Women’s Prison System; 1: “Much and Unfortunately Neglected”: Women in Early and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Prisons; 2: Origins of the Women’s Reformatory, 1870?1900; 3: The Women’s Reformatory Movement, 1900?1935: From Success to Decline; 4: Custodial Prisons For Women, 1870?1935; II: The Implementation of Punishment; Introduction; 5: Conviction Offenses, Sentences, and Prisoners at Five Institutions; 6: Race and Racism in State Prisons Holding Women, 1865?1935; 7: The Realization of Partial Justice: A Case Study of The Social Control of Women; 8: The Third Stage: The Women’s Prison System Since 1935; III: Gender and Justice; 9: Sex Discrimination in the Prison System: New Responses to the Perennial Problem