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What starts as a normal day for Hana Kuroda ends with an encounter that will change her life forever. After unexpectedly lending a hand at the local hospital A&E, Hana is surprised by a visit from Dr Haile, offering her the chance to leave the earth and travel amongst the stars. Wishing to follow in her fathers footsteps, Hana is amazed at the prospect. But are there reasons under the surface that lead to her recruitment? What was the document the Areion crew found and how does it all relate to her fathers death? Who is the mysteriously familiar soldier on the Areion and when has he been a part of her life? Choosing to give up her peaceful, ordinary life at home, Hana signs up to the Areion to live with nine others as they journey from planet to planet following a trail that will lead to one of the darkest secrets the government has ever had. As her future opens up before her, events of her past begin to resurface and Hana begins to discover who the father-figure of her childhood really was.

"In 1870, prison inmate advocates, wardens, and leading scientists held a Prison Congress symposium in Cincinnati, Ohio, to discuss the plausibility of segregating the genders in penitentiaries and jails. The lobbying and petitions addressed during the panel discussion would result in the nation's first installation of a female-only prison reformatory in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Indianapolis Women's Reformatory, later re-named the Indianapolis Women's Prison (IWP), was the culmination of a Progressive Era (1880-1930) prison reform movement that was led and executed by then-Governor Conrad Baker and the noted Quakers, Charles and Rhoda Coffin. Often seen by historians as a benevolent reform, the history of the inner-workings of the IWP shows corrupted prisons and inmate abuses. The first original and successful prison reform movement outside of the men's reformatory movement on the East Coast, the Midwestern model of the women's reformatory is a legacy underrepresented and under researched in current scholarship. For over 140 years, the narratives of the IWP and understandings of the importance of Indiana's deep relationship to prison reform, specifically incarceration policies influenced by the eugenic sciences, have been circulated in smaller, regional academic circles but have failed to penetrate larger historical discussions. This project brings this regional history into dialogue with larger national trends in scholarship on the histories of incarceration and prison reform in the United States. This project seeks to bring inclusion and awareness of the Midwestern reformatory movement by collaborating with other disciplines, such as psychology and criminology, that largely enrich the genre of prison discourse and history. Furthermore, its focus on the incarceration of women balances the current production of prison narratives that is saturated with research on men's institutions and male inmates. The reformatory institution that was produced by Progressive Era reformers in Indiana has continued to be the standard of prison managements and administrations. Its history shaped America's relationship with mass incarceration, particularly its dearth of rehabilitative efforts. " --