In the early 1950s, she was a social worker at a federal prison for women in West Virginia and in juvenile court in Chicago, Illinois.
Besides being home of a prison for women, Chowchilla is known for a bizarre 1976 incident in which a kidnapped bus with 26 children and their driver was buried in a local rock quarry.
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The campaigners also agreed that prison just makes life harder for women - so they are more likely to reoffend.
One prisoner, serving a life sentence at East Sutton Park women's prison for causing grievous bodily harm, said the scheme had given her hope.
Later that day, the police transferred her to a prison they had set up just for women in a wing of the city's central jail.
Clarke, from Scunthorpe, had been released from Hull prison after serving a sentence for assaults against women.
Earlier in his testimony Howell told the court he started "looking around" for other women and, in an interview with the prison psychiatrist in 2009, claimed he was "ripe for the picking".
If found guilty, as even their lawyer expects, the three women could be sent to prison for seven years.
The 58-year-old said she feared Tobin, who is said to have boasted in prison to having killed 48 women, may be responsible for many more murders.
Lord Hurd, a former home secretary and former chairman of the Prison Reform Trust, also believes that jail is not the right answer for many of these women.
Inspectors who visited the women's prison in May discovered many inmates still had to share cramped cells meant for one person.
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