Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee, 2007. Photo by Kyndell Harkness for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2007. Republished with the permission of the Star Tribune.

Dining room of the Women's State Reformatory, Shakopee, ca. 1950.

Parlor of the Women's State Reformatory, Shakopee, ca. 1950.

Incarcerated women working in the laundry room of the Women's State Reformatory, Shakopee, ca. 1950.

Incarcerated women working in the sewing room of the Women's State Reformatory, Shakopee, ca. 1950.

State Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, ca. 1937.

Higbee Hall, the administration building at the Women's State Reformatory, Shakopee, 1936. Photo by A. F. Raymond.

A woman incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, feeds pigs in a field, ca. 1920.

Women incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, cultivate a field ca. 1920.

Women incarcerated at the Minnesota Reformatory for Women, Shakopee, pose by a cornfield, ca. 1920.