Title: Le pourrissoir, Saint-Lazare
Description: The author, a neo-Malthusian social activist, was convicted in 1920 of "abortion complicity" and sentenced to two years in the women's prison of Saint Lazare. This account, published twelve years later, describes her experiences.
Subjects: Imprisonment, Reformatories for women
Places: France, Paris
People: Henriette Jeanne Humbert-Rigaudin (1890-1986)