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Richarda Womens Prisons England 1700s: new alternative for a commuted death sentence was to transport convicts to the American colonies and Austrailaua with various work sentences. 1 in 8 women forced into sentences of prostutioin. Middle Ages: Women burned to death for commiting adultery or murder, while male adulteries and wife killer rarely considered offenders. Elizabeth Fry: Est ladies society for promoting reformation of female prisons in England. Also segrated prisons by sex, hired women to supervise women, decreasing hard labor required by women prisoners. Reform movement: began in England. Group of women est Magdalen Home in 1830 to reform prostitutes through religious and motivational instruction. Goal was to remold rather than punish women by encouraging proper gender roles. Civil War reform movement: widows of war soilders filled the jails as prostitutes and thieves during 1800s. Society as a whole was obsessed with controlling social disorder of women, therefore placing harsher punishment on women women, prisons, war, started, sentences, reform, prisoners, offenders, movement, goal, gender, society, sex, roles, prostitutes, men, male, group, first, est, england, designed, death, born, work, womens, women-rehab, wife, widows, whole, white, while, various, until, transport