Adrian Trujillo’s Reviews > Numbered: Inside Idaho's Prison for Women, 1887-1968 > Status Update

Most Idahoan women had a legitimate reason forge checks. They simply couldn’t afford food for themselves or their children especially at a time when women did not work.

It’s fascinating learning about the reasons why women in Idaho in the 19th & 20th centuries got in trouble with the law and found themselves in the Idaho State Penitentiary. Some were valid reasons, but others were out of self-defense. The good thing is most of these women were freed earlier than their sentence out of sympathy from all-male juries or the Idaho Governors. Men prisoners wouldn’t get sympathy.

Bought this on my vacation to Idaho where I went inside a historic prison in Boise called Old Idaho Penitentiary. This book focuses on the women prisoners.