Edna Larrabee (left) and a Shakopee Reformatory for Women matron after Larrabee turned herself in to police. Published in the Minneapolis Tribune on March 28, 1948.

Edna Larrabee (left) and Beulah Brunelle (right) in 1948. Photograph published in the Minneapolis Star, November 22, 1948.

Nellie Stone Johnson at work inside Nellie's Shirt and Zipper repair shop, Lumber Exchange Building 1035, Minneapolis, November 1980. Photograph by Elizabeth M. Hall.

Oromo women participate in the March for Oromia at the Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul on July 26, 2007. Photo by Oromia Entertainment, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.