Female prisons are a relatively new concept; women used to be placed in a separate wing of male prison houses. But, as more and more women started getting convicted of as many crimes as their male counterparts, the first women’s prison was finally built in 1869. With the initial target to reform rather than imprison, inmates were tasked with cooking, farming duties and cleaning rather than being locked up in cells and placed in the dark. The eventual goal was to send the women back into society rather than keeping them hidden from the world. After all, back then these women were believed be just raving alcoholics or engaged in a few naughty narcotics, not murderesses or black widows. These days, women’s prisons are exceptionally different and much the same as the average male prison. Housing the world’s most dangerous criminals, some female prisons have become extremely notorious for being truly terrifying.

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