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Josie Kensler, who entered the Idaho State Penitentiary in 1897. She was only twenty-five years old in 1897 but had already seen much of life, including marriage at age fourteen and the birth of two children. Kensler delivered her third child—reportedly the first baby born in the prison—only months after her incarceration began. Idaho State Historical Society, no. 565.
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