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The Women's House of Detention pax arcana always availableThis "crucial" (The Advocate) and "compelling" (BuzzFeed) history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Womens House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of womens imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York Citys Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands