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A PliEA FOR FEMALE CONVICTS. 133
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Captain Commission O'Brien On Penal Stat...
lent tlie privilege secretary of of being the society helped , . I bel Those ieve , most tliat femal needing e convicts assistance owe tlained
perh hav much e a been p smaller s by the the than las fac t t that t t receive ha of t males the it , number an anomal of female parial criminals Jy exp is
. convicts The great in Ireland benefits and the the Refuges important are adj conferring unct they form on female to the
I vidence rish syst before em , are the th , u commission s spoken of : — by Sir Walter Crofton in his
e enerall u Have s the uccessful efforts in , " obtaining asked Lord emp _! Naas loyment , " for th these ose ladies women been ?"
gy — " " You Very think much that so . " thare a valuable adjunct to the system ?"
ey — should u I do feel not as know far as the the women system are would concerned go on without that it would it . I
fall com The ple difficul t , ely to ty the of ground obtaining without loymen such adjunct t for , . " the women
"emp m being uch so muc ter . " h greater than for the men ?"— Yes , so very
-In the grea establishment of such institutions as I have described be I mus be t beg on permission a small scale to urg It e mos is no t stron task gly that to render they should fit for _,
gun . easy They s domestic uccess are will always service lie in wayward t having hese poor smal , of crea ten l numbers t v ures iolen , t the , at and objects first the . onl B of y y kindness our hope care of .
t enden pa t t lish s ience , and this , the attachment they women must will engenders behave become well attached a . desire Thus to to an their influence please superin . To on
t accomp to c he eivin insubordin side g t hat no g ation ht is nt or created enance bad ; conduct w new ill b -com e . given This ers will by good th y ield influence com to p it anio , pe can n r -
those only be numbers created may among be gradual * small ly n increa umbers s and ed ; but as the once general in If existence feelin l g ,
n on um the ber side were o received f right becomes at once , wa stead ywardness y strong and ill . -disci a plined arge
minds would prevail , thus rendering nugatory the efforts of Christian benevolence . NshasI thinkfelt the necessitof beginning *
o peron , , y any work Demetz of and reformation surely no on one a has smal attained l scale more to a larger deeply measure than M of .
success . , He commenced in 1840 with 12 boys . The colonists at hav Mettray e passed now throug exceed h the 700 institution , while nine have -ten become ths of respectable those who
members whil Tt e is seeking not of merel society y in . loyment affording that a home these to disch Refuges arged exercise prisoners so _,,
beneficial an influence emp . Since , the subject of reformation has been considered at allevery one has agreed that the most
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A Pliea For Female Convicts. 133
A _PliEA FOR FEMALE CONVICTS . 133
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/61/
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