In pictures: Inmates of the oldest women's prison in the USA.

In 1970, Jack Lueders-Booth quit his job to pursue his passion for photography. At the age of 35, he went to Harvard University, where he headed the photo lab and soon began teaching photography.

In 1977, Lueders-Booth approached the Graduate School of Education with an innovative idea for a master's program that would put him in the field rather than in the classroom. He wanted to teach photography to inmates and use it as a means to boost morale, build camaraderie, teach valuable skills, and capture moments with family during visiting hours.

For the project, Lueders-Booth collaborated with the Massachusetts Prison Art Project, which was looking to set up a photography program at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Framingham, the oldest women's prison in the country. The prison was originally founded in 1878 to punish women for having children out of wedlock (“procreation”). Today, it houses sex workers, drug addicts and accomplices to their male partners' crimes.