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4 FEMALE UFE IN PBISON.
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married women had "been folly appreciated by the class from which our pr h isoners to draw are a chiefly drawn thoug , and h imag that inary the women consolation had acuteness from the
disabili enoug ties under which meagre they labor ! It may well be conceived , however , that even kicking , scratching , and swearing , as
someshor times tenin occur g , of are hair of , a no tep avail id bath ; and , a that change with of the " dress regist in which of name they , ived tthe brown blue check and muslin '
of are and prison rece ' one uniform more o unfor , the tunate key turned 9 g is , added upon to a the cell apron list in . " the , solitary ward cap / the routine /
We will not take up our space with describing prison thoug ingbut h the turn accoun our t g attention iven of it to in the this two book classes is curious of inmates and interest : the - -
prison , officials and the criminals . The matrons are supposed in * each case to have attained the age of five or six and twenty years _>
before enforced entering in this res the ect service and occasionall , " although the f rule air faces is no that t rig have idly
not seen one and twenty p , summers , appear y young in the ranks , to , grow aged and careworn before their natural time . The prisons are no place *
for such innocent and inexperienced youth , and within the last year , en I believe force the , the rule direc alluded tors have to . v . . y . w The isely advantages resolved to of more a service strictl of y - "
thi arded s kind to twi respect thstandin able young that women the services are not to arduou be lightl sand y disre the
prisoners g , not the most g cheerful or refined society . An , assistant matron enters the service at asalary of £ 35 annum—from
, per , which salary is deducted 3 s . 4 d . a month for the uniform dress , —' and rises £ 1 a In case of promotion to matronan event
likel salary y to is occur £ 40 per in year annum the . cours , with e of three increase or four of 2 5 years s . eac ' h year service , . , And the
in the event of rising to the post of principal matron—far from an impossibility £ 50 before with ten years a yearl ' service increase is concluded thereto —the of salary £ 1 10 s .
Encouragement per annum to , persevere in y their duties is freely offered to : these Government servantsand a life pension awaits them at
the end often years' service . , " These conditions are far more favorable than women usually
secure in their work ; on the other hand , the duties are heavy . in three The the prison evening There matron is three a " Sunday is days at her a out week post " o ; ccas from and ional from 6 ly in 6 and the till during morning 6 on the the till other year 9 -
there . are fourteen days' holidays , from which , are deducted' those the days hours of sick being leave long , which and , are the unfortunatel service arduous y not . few The and author far between of the ,
book the matron appeals s are earnestl subjected y against ; the average the overtask work being of strength fourteen to which hours
it blessed day , with " too , an much undue labor amount —and of such robustness labor !— and for muscular any women power not . " ' ¦ !
4 Female Ufe In Pbison.
4 _FEMALE _UFE IN _PBISON .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/4/
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