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THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONYICTS. 257
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
_results adopted as they in are in the , them would scholars was he of not bad our We , at or schools once cannot that infer , the criminal believe , official either that convicted s that wer such e the inefficient extraor children system - and lectful of duty .
the dinary Convict Directors neg failur Prisons e ted in arises , must their respecting from reports be any whom . in letel efficiency We hi believe gh testimony in , the therefore and officials can is , borne never that of the the b do y system adopcompy convicts wrong _, of this
what is intendedi . e . reform female . In support the conclusion same careful we mi , investi ght quote gation the has statis been tics made of other ; we prisons might , whe bring ' re
p numberless lished thieves cases and from fem Police ale pick [ Reports pockets received , where prove peculiarl to be ticket y accom in -of-
leave womenor some that have a long training a the Convict Directors Prison , of . the We Fem might ale even Convict take Prisons the evidence before of the one late of
beneficial Commission ch , ang and e show In their his utter very hopelessness unsatisfactory of state eifec , ting except any under
indeed the use of the stocks ! The stocks for women reformatory treatment ! We have ample evidence to prove that
the The whole subject system of is Convict wrong . discipline , and especially what conuntil
or recentl cern consideration s Femal y , been e Convicts quite and beyond , while their condition the the public scope and has of treatment popular been latel , knowle has forced , dge
into some attention ; to the male convicts and their management y , few have known anything about the women who are in Millbank
reached and Brixton a third . The edition extraordin " Female ary Life book in which Prison has b this a Prison year y
Matron" has however startled , the public by its extraordin , ary those revelations who , may . Its most authenticity regret its has publication not been . questioned It is it written is even in by no
unfriendl dedicated y sp and irit the to the chief Directors object , apparent to one of whom is to have gratefully a better position " ladies secured , " to who the have " Prison been Matrons compelled , " m by any want of who of m more are
suitabl young e means of obtaining a livelihood , , to undertake the _Uow painful the and general arduous impression task of controuling excited in the these public wretched mind by women these .
volumes is that these women are so remarkably and incredibly must bad that be any confessed attemp that t to in improve the condition them must there be described hopeless . and It
, under the ex is t ing syst e m , improvement may be impossible which .
But these women do not exhibit any features of character may not be observed by experienced officials in ordinary gaols the ,
Inmates and which of indeed our own may Reformatories be noticed in . a The nascent extraordinary state in and
The Treatment Of Female Conyicts. 257
THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONYICTS . 257
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/41/
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