While the city moves to redevelop the prison grounds, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former inmates' stories.

Indianapolis city officials are starting to consider options for the redevelopment of the former Indiana Women’s Prison on the city’s near-east side. The Metropolitan Development Commission on ...

When it opened at that location in 1873, the Indiana Women’s Prison was the first penitentiary for female offenders in the United States. The prison closed in 2009, the Indiana Department of ...