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FEMALE I/IFE IN PRISON". 3
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It is a prison for inale and female convicts . In charge of the female artment are assistant matrons on probationassistant
matron matrons comp on , reception whom the -matron practical , working principal of matrons the prison , latterl really y , devolves a chief .
The sole superintendence is now vested in Mrs . Gibson . The arrival of female prisoners at Millbanksays our informant ,
, is " unfortunately almost an everyday occurrence—the great sea of crime is never stilland its waves are ever breaking against the
grim front of our penitentiary , . These prisoners are not arriving , irom sentence are coming the of count direct the y jud gaols from — still froni the ring Central Gloucester ing Criminal in , their York , Court ears Stafford ; , or & c , back , & with c .- — from they the
_Pulham and Brixton ge prisons , where they have insulted officers , or set the rules of disciline at defianceand so are returned to
Millbank , where there p is little association , , a stricter silence , and work more hard . "
Of all the ceremonies of reception , that of hair-cutting appears to cause the most dismay . One will bear it with stoicism , but a
second will weep passionately , a third will have a shivering fit over the It , and matron a fourth on will her pray knees to to be spared to the the lad indi y-superintendent gnity , and imp , lore and
state her case for her . A story go is given of one old woman of sixty , " with about the same number of grey hairs to her head . " She was of her life in and
; an old prison-bird , had spent two-thirds prison , -was as vain of her personal appearance as after any girl of seventeen siht of . the
No , Miss B ., " she said to the operator , catching g scissors " not this , and time drawing if herself lease up with Miss the B . haug It htiness can't be of done a duche . " s But syou p
, , Miss to B . be rep done lied that before it could the prisoner be done , left and the was room absolutel . " y Things
necessary have altered a little , Miss B ., since I saw you last , I can assure you . You ' ve no to touch a hair of my headMum . " " How ' s
power , regarded that ? " " the If you matron please with , Mum undisguised , I ' married triump , " and h . the " And old woman what ' s
that to do with it?—sit down—you really must sit down . " " "What ' s that to do with 7 it ? " shrieked the daren old woman t touch indi it gnantly ,
to to " _tvh touch law y , . it ' it s It . my belongs Lord husband bless to s my hair husband noiv the ; and Queen , not you to of me Eng , ' and land you daren ' ve according no 't lay right a you
, finger ¦ When on she it now found , " that this argument was unavailable with the
-operator land , , of she course demanded and to after see the the governor cruel deed : he was knew erformed the law she of p
vowed Eng to make a full ;— statement to the directors on the next board meeting directors , and at once begged . Such to have an infamous her name violation put down of the to laws see of those her
country It would she had never that been the witness discussions to in concerning her time ! the property of
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Female I/Ife In Prison". 3
FEMALE I / _IFE IN PRISON " . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/3/
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