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THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS. 253
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
deep _extricate ly sunk themselves in crirn , e and , at an they age fall which which . Some in in this have the is hi come gher to classes us so
womanhood would be called , that g in irlhood a Home , but -School , such as we experienced wish ours to benothing more can be done than curb their evil
propen-They sities must , during be the expecte limited d to period fall again which , tho they ugh we can may pass hope with that us . eventuall
spring some seed up has under been the sown health in y their disci hearts pline , of which adversity may . Others y whom
are mature we are broug compelled vice ht before and hav to our refuse e notice become ; as they app too have licants entered letel for admis sunk too sion full into , y into the y
worst corrup , tion , to be safely admitted comp into communication taken with the to young reform * er and Yet less we depraved grieve to g refuse irls whom them we for have our under past
increased experience our , with faith . all that its even discouragements they miht and be saved failures , if , onl has they only
those were p who laced would in proper devote circumstances not onltheir , g and time under and the , labours guidance y but of
their heart and soul to the work . y , Most Where of will them a larg we e fear proportion will find of these their poor way g ere irls long be sent to ? the
Female Convict , Prisons at , Millbank and Brixton , ! But , a few third weeks conviction since one to poor penal girl servitude of 13 was because sentenced it was at assizes believed on that her
the she was Convict so bad Prisons _thgt no she Reformatory would , probabl would y receive meet her her ; time wicked and to in
mother time we who have was heard alread with y an grief inmate that one of them or another . From of our old . scholarsfor whom indeed we had anticipated such a fallhas
, , -alread What y incurred are these that Convict doom , Prisons —is alread ? y "What a government system is convict adopted .
in them ? Is there any hope that the women committed to them can be reformed there ?
to These us [ Reformatory are questions Managers which must who often ever have feel an anxiousl almost y o parental ccurred
interest in our scholarseven , the most obdurate and the worst . Does the HeavenlFather , ever forget His most erring children ?
knowing Until latel anything y , however y of the , we true have nature had but of these little establishments opportunity of .
outbreaks Society has and gazed rebellions with amazement which have and from alarm tim at e the to fearful time
occurred in the Male Convict Prisons , and shuddered at the , murder or suicide which the public prints , announce as having
model taken p reformatory lace in those as which well as wer penal e supposed prisons by . the But public the Female to be
_^ Convict prisons have not thus ostentatiously attracted public
The Treatment Of Female Convicts. 253
THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS . 253
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/37/
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