The shocking story of how Kansas detained thousands of women between WWI and WWII. It's a conversation with Nicole Perry, author of Policing Sex in the Sunflower State: The Story of Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women.
Opinion by Nikki Perry: The ease with which legislators and the general public have dismissed women’s rights throughout history offers a lesson to us all, if we are willing to listen.
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Wed, 07/07/2021
LAWRENCE Between 1918 and 1942, the majority of those sentenced to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women were there not because they committed murder or robbery. They were there for having sex sometimes merely for sex with their husbands.
“I found so many parallels between now and then with public health, access to health care for poor people and questions about the role the prison system should play in our daily lives,” said Nicole Perry, assistant director at the Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Kansas.
“I think we would be wise to learn some lessons from this.”