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180 A PLEA FOB FEMALE CONVICTS, - I
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XXII.—A PLEA FOE FEMALE CONVICTS. i I A ...
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Captain Commission O'Brien on Penal stat...
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180 A Plea Fob Female Convicts, - I
180 A PLEA FOB FEMALE CONVICTS , - I
Xxii.—A Plea Foe Female Convicts. I I A ...
XXII . —A PLEA FOE FEMALE CONVICTS . i I A Paper Read at the Social Science Congress , I By Miss Rosamond Hill . | i
Captain Commission O'Brien On Penal Stat...
Captain Commission O'Brien on Penal states Servitude in his evidence that the before homes the to which Royal _| |
b F y t he prison Convicts au _, t on horities their , discharg are , " the e , are most either wre t tched aken or places sen | t | to him to be that
ima a woman ginable u / ' and retrieve that it appears position " after entering impossibl them e _^ | J
onl y one Commission , apparentl make y , which one th important ey consider _recommendation as affording , | | the to female convicts the tunity of leading a respectable life . 1
induced They suggest to receive that charitable these oppor and women religious and socie ive ties them should a home be [ ; l 1
until employment can be found poor for them , . Th g ough no allusion | is exis made ting for by t t his Commissioners in Ireland , in th I conclude Report they , to the recommend Refuges | | .
their establishment purpose in Great Britain , , because they avow their ff conviction of the beneficial results these Institutions have 1
wroug In Ireland ht . those female convicts who have earned | their I
which ticket-of -leave under , receive the i direc t on t condition ion of ladies that th ey teres enter ted Refuges in | |
women reformation being of their Roman erring Cat sisters holics , . by The far great the larger majority number of the are Jj ff
received at the convent of the Sisters of Mercy at Golden 8 Brid Street ge , Dublin while the managed Protestants by a committee go to a Refuge of Protestan in Heytesbury t ladies .. ji I
In these , homes , the women remain a longer or shorter period ,. p necessaril according y to until the their length licence of has their exp sentences ired ; and , _| are thoug emp h loyed not jf
in remunerative industrial labour , such as washing | , ironing ,. scarcel t his general ex y p ect well at domestic ion , , as to wor work work king . hard women They ; and are outside expected they . After do , and the t live th | period ey be fulfil tter of | ,
care for proba them of tion , their and is passed in benevolent this i manner n the guardian R they efuge go , s from at loymen once under to t _| can the respectable be watchfu found l | jfj
wre situa tched tions homes , without . The incurring ladies the superintending risk of contamination these Institutions in their | | | |
are are al able read t y . full procure y emp w lo or yed k sui th table ere is to no each need protegee for accepting , for as they the > | | j j
first are suited obviated offer to of their in work their capabilities , and upward they . path can By , wait th which ese until means , without occupation man this y difficulties fostering is | found _, f jji
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/58/
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