26. BONUS! EPISODE: ERICA SPILLER

This week on DIEOWA, we interview Erica Spiller, the Assistant Director of Student Development at DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College) and author of Iowa Women’s Corrections: A History.

Learn more about Erica Spiller here, and purchase her book, Iowa Women’s Corrections: A History, here.

Warden's mansion where women lived with the family. Postcard. Erica Spiller's personal collection.

Aerial view of the Women's Reformatory at Rockwell City. Courtesy Patti Wachtendorf.

Exterior of Unit 5. Used at Girls Industrial School and original ICIW. Photo credit Alyssa Jensen

Interior of new general population unit currently in use at ICIW. Photo credit Alyssa Jensen

Exterior of new gen. pop. unit currently in use at ICIW. Photo credit Alyssa Jensen

This is an image of the Hossack family, including Margaret Hossack, deemed "Lizzie Borden of Iowa." Image permission from Thomas Wolf and Patricia L. Bryan

This is one view of the yard I was mentioning in the Health Unit where they can "feel" outside through the fence, but are barely outside. Photo credit Alyssa Jensen

This is a different yard in the Health Unit. You can see it's a bit more exposed to outside, but still part of the building. Photo credit Alyssa Jensen

Another view of the interior of the first lock up yard. Photo credit Alyssa Jensen

Photo credit for Erica Spiller’s headshot goes to Dylan Heuer.