This project’s mission is to lend a voice to those who are silenced even within the prison industrial complex. Facilities for men often take precedence over those for women. This project uses the stories of women who were incarcerated in order to tell the history from the perspective of those who it effects the most. From the Jefferson Market Jail in 1832 to the Rose M. Singer Center, which opened in 1988 and operates to this day, the history of women’s incarceration in New York has always been a unique and seldom told story.