Fifty years later, the first women’s prison was established in the United States by Rhoda Coffin, who was similarly moved by the appalling conditions she saw at a co-ed Indiana state penitentiary.

She said she couldn't keep me away from it any longer." On Feb. 10, 1956, at the Bordeaux prison in Montreal, Wilbert Coffin was hanged for the murder of 17-year-old Richard E. Lindsay.