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THE TBEATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS. 255
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
actual number of women in gaol exceeds that of men , instead t of being s resen one t -third numb or erless one- t half . tations _IsTow we to know viceand that all larg ieve e
that in p Liverpool dens of iniquity of the , most dangerous character abound . We know too that sea-port town t s , espe t -
cially one so situated as Liverpool , are much exposed o be he res aware idence also of tha larg t the e numbers elabora of te dissolute Police as ch well aracters as G . aol We are ts repor
which are prepared in y Liverpool , do not often in other places held amoun come be t of fore femal the l e iarl public depravity entitled eye . , t Liverpool to o s unenviable tartle must it wi notoriety t not h an therefore enormous and we be
must up endeavour as pecu to y ascertain some special reason , for this Immense increase of female crime there . We are enabled by t
t some he repor idea t o o f f t t he C share haplain of this the which Gaol , Rev may . T be . Carter given , t o form our
~ Female Convict prisons . of bo T t h sexe large s canno number t bu , " t he have says , tt " of t re ed -commitments notice : and of adults those your
g wil adminis en l tlem no t doubt rat ion ho have have of jus been had tice , their more in your immedia atten police tion tel and drawn y connec sessions from ted w time it cour h t t to s ,
penal time t servitude o the grea prisoners t number and of holders offences of commi tickets tted of leave y re . turned The t
full extent of this evil , however , does not lie upon he surface . I Some have littl not e gone investi ver gation y minu is tel needfu y into l the to discover question its , nor proportions am I able . its h
to state in precise figures the number of returned convcwo i hav dea e , been thoug alone committed h , 71 may ( 40 be males to formed this gaol when during 1 I f say emales the that ) last of were year the . r sessions eturned Some
the conv cases tim icts , of in their many fur ther ; tances conviction holders o and f ticke on t the s of last leav day e even of the at
official e year there were under conviction ; in this gaol 55 who recognized as belonging to that category
were . of life Further of all , I the have females inquired who into hav the e been present sentenced doings and to penal mode
servitude 1859 and ' between I beg to the submi 1 st t of the June followin , 1856 g , as and the the result 31 st : — May 241 ,
those were , sentenced three , to of various whom periods 34 are of still penal under servitude detention during in
convict their prisons sentences years , leaving , of these 207 who 207 are 97 cannot supposed be to traced have be under cause
gone prob many ability have have only emi just ; grated received or passed their , liberty to other ; others localities may , beyond in all
the reach of my enquiry ; * 73 have been re-committed , several * Of those " not known" others were committed shortly after this Report written
was .
The Tbeatment Of Female Convicts. 255
THE TBEATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS . 255
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/39/
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