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256 THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS.
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
subjected to second like sentences ; 17 are known to be living known been disorderl pardoned to y have lives and on medical main ted to taining other grounds * localities themselve , dead , and s or by all luna crime trace tics ; ; is 7 4 lost ha are ve
1 is in a refuge in gra [ London ; whilst only 8 , are known to be so ; far " doing Now , well these . figures exhibit a fearful state of things . I give
tions them from as plain them facts . _, One and conclusion leave others however to draw canno their t own be evaded deducconvict namely prisons , that the is a present lete failure mode of , treatment [ Nearl , the a whole dopted in those our ,
comp , y spread turned women— the to cer Liverpool leaven tainly of a their to large mix ernicious propor again tion with _irifhience of our them population with —have this condition been and , re to
p holder forfei in their ture should hands of the be license endorsed convicted it is on of their no new mean license offence s necessary — . To If she produce that associ the -
life and & ates c , , she i or witli t will lias will notoriousl be no be assumed visible at once y bad means apprehended that characters she 5 of any obtaining is about and , leads re " to an -committed an relapse honest idle or into livelihood to dissolu prison crime te , ,
under lier original sentence . But this intimation is a dead wherein letter—a it mere has idle ever threat been . enforced I do not indeed know of a sing is le it ins possible tance
that it should be carried into effect ; where there , not only exists no machinery , no organized arrangements for enforcing the
singular condition inconsis , but whilst tency the , discoun heads tenance of the convict all interference department . " , with
Here then we have one most important cause of the great increase _Now in of t female he fi crime iven in Liverpool us by Mr . Carterthere can be no
gures g . , mis supposition take , because but on they positive are founded information not on obtained vague throug report or
lie well-organized , of police the " and o lete ther failure official " aids of t . The conviction t tem expresses comppresensys
alone adopted on in the our conclusive Female statistics Convict just Prisons quoted is , not which one shew founded that onl 8 women are known to be doing well out of 241 sent to
the y Convict Gaols . The conclusions he has arrived at are founded on very long and close personal observation f of the
h resul ave ts been , as w w orking ell as cau at s the es o R f ef female ormatory crime ca , use and kno all w well us h w ho w important and valuable have been the contributions he has
made Liverpool to it E from oro' Gaol the very for a firs long t , f course ounded of on years his . dai This ly wor testimony k in the
results and the . conclusions If the Inspector he has of our arriv Reformatories ed at , are founded discovered on ac such tual
256 The Treatment Of Female Convicts.
256 THE TREATMENT OF _FEMALE CONVICTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/40/
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