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A PLEA FOR FEMALE CONVICTS. 131
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Captain Commission O'Brien On Penal Stat...
almost care , would the onl prove vocation insurmountable to these ; for domestic creatures service and as is a
y open poor , rul Practical e mistresses ly the will difficulty not engage of finding them direct employment from a prison for well . -dissince the
posed establishment female convicts of Refuges no longer in which exists their in surroundings Ireland , closely
resemble which it those is of a the private disci , lin famil of y , the and prison where has the inculcated principles
hoped pe , can We be put learn to a from fair test a . delivered to the Commission by paper
are Cap the tain regulations Whitt , y , Director for the admission of Convict and Prisons direction in Ireland of convicts , what in
these Hefuges . institutions 66 The prisoners are furnished , " he say with s , such a on clothing their removal and outfit to as the is removal to
given to convicts on their discharge , and the cost of and " from During the the institutions period of detention is paid for 5 b s y . per the week government is paid . to the
-, institution convict " A furth This for er sum the sum m of aintenance is 2 s kep . per t week quite of each is distinct paid prisoner as from a gratuit . the y ordinary for each
allowance < _fec . and . accumulates of 5 s . per for week the paid better in provision each case of for each maintenance female on _^
disch " , Both arge . these payments cease on the expiration of the convict ' s
sentence . under " The the treatmen committee t and of the the man institution agement the of director the prisoners of convict are
prisons " The havin time g for the admission right of general of the inspection convicts , into and the supervision refuges is .
being regulated allowed by the to scale go to for the disch refuge arge until on licence qualified , no for prisoner such attainment
of disch a prescribed arge by time badge ( according , accordin to g to sentence prison ) con , and duct the . ticketofleave
which broug _" They ht extends back are sent to onl the y there to prison the on refuge . licence with , revoked and ( under they licence are liable - , if - to their be ) _,
conduct " The is option irregular of . being sent , to a refuge , or allowed to go at circumstances
independent large , on licence of prison , is not conduct given , may to the render prisoner a prisoner _; decide ineligible ,
These for the circum refuge tan , and this are is such left to as the managers disabling to infirmity upon .
having convictions illeg for itimate s disorderl ces children conduct with & age c them , & any c , . " numerous previous , y
if she A prisoner objects , ( th which ough is eli of gible rare , is occurrence not , obli , ged , her to alternative go to the refuge being
A Plea For Female Convicts. 131
A PLEA FOR FEMALE CONVICTS . 131
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/59/
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