The initial step toward creating prisons specially designed for females didn't' occur until 1934, when the Texas State Prison System created the Women's Correctional Institute.

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The first prison specifically for women in the United States was the Mount Pleasant Female Prison in New York, which opened in 1835 as part of the Mount Pleasant State Prison (later known as Sing Sing).

The Initial Step Toward Creating Prisons Specially Designed for Females