Summary of Hugh Ryan's The Women's House of Detention

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#1 The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village was a prison for incarcerated women, which I visited as a child and now can’t look at without hearing Jay Toole’s voice describing the brutal physicals that doctors had inflicted upon her there.

#2 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.

#3 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they’re also places of queer history and community.

#4 Prisons are not just places of violence and control, they are also places of queer history and community.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350040289

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village is one of the loveliest places I cannot stand. The only reminder of the prison’s history as a detention center is the high steel fence.

#2

The House of D was a landmark for the queer community, as it was a prison for women. It is unclear how high the percentage of people who are part of the LBTQ spectrum is in prison settings, but it is estimated to be around 40 percent.

#3

The House of D was a prison specifically for queer women, and it housed many during the most homophobic period in American history.

#4

Prisons are a system that hide all social problems we refuse to deal with. They have very little to do with justice or rehabilitation, and everything to do with hiding every problem we don’t want to deal with.

#5

The criminal legal system is a system that deals with root causes, while the criminal justice system focuses on punishment and confinement. The former focuses on the humanity of those who are incarcerated, while the latter ignores it.

#6

Marriage law is a poor solution to the problem of care. It attempts to promote relationships of care in hopes that this work will not end up on the state.

#7

Mabel Hampton was a young Black lesbian who was arrested on July 5, 1924, in Harlem. She had the rare opportunity to record her side of the story, which provides us with a detailed account of her life.

#8

The history of women’s incarceration in America is not just a small mirror held up to the incarceration of men, but rather the development of a distinctly unjust system of justice dedicated to the maintenance and propagation of proper femininity.

#9

Greenwich Village today is known for its beautiful twisted streets, artistic creation, and gay liberation. But from the dawn of the country all the way up to the close of the twentieth century, prisons dominated life in Greenwich Village.

#10

The prison system in America was originally designed to punish the antisocial acts of white men. But over the course of the nineteenth century, it was repurposed as a method of social control over women of all colors and Black people.

#11

The first police station in Greenwich Village was the Jefferson Market Police Station, which was built in 1844. It was a one-stop shop for nineteenth-century justice, from the police to the jail to the detention center.

#12