“A place of hope and renewal” is not how one generally describes a jail, and yet an effort to frame correctional facilities for women as sites of protection rather than unfreedom has been under way since the founding of the first such institutions in the country. have long been compelling targets for feminist intervention. Singer said, “I hope that the center will be a place of hope and renewal for all the women who come here.” At the facility’s ribbon-cutting ceremony, Mrs. Job training was offered in horticulture and the culinary arts, and a restaurant was built on site where women could practice their new skills. A large courtyard where detainees could freely meander within a protected perimeter was planted with trees and flowers. The facility was equipped with a nursery where women who had recently given birth could stay with their infants while awaiting trial. The buildings had skylights and the walls were painted in friendly colors. The approach to corrections at “Rosie’s” was meant to be rehabilitative and therapeutic, rather than cruel and punitive. Singer Center, a new, state-of-the-art women’s jail on Rikers Island named after the women’s-rights advocate and criminal-justice reformer who championed its founding. In 1988, New York City opened the Rose M.
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