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258 THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS.
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
ited ridiculous in a d vanit egraded y disp convict layed may woman seem but incredible it does when exist i exhib n our
criminal population , and even in our , reformatory girls , more strongly than in well-educated persons . The extreme
selfconsideration , selfishness , wilfulness , excitability , deception _^ pourtrayed in these volumes are common to all ill-regulated _,
women ; the passionate and violent excitement manifested when they are placed under the controul of the other sex may be
witnessed at our police courts and in our streets , when females maddened hy liquor and inflamed passions find themselves in
the grasp of a policeman ; it is appalling to see what supernatural strength even a young irl can put forth when so
excited . In ordinary Gaols , even g in our Reformatories , such scenes miht occursuch characters be developed if there were
not a proper g controul , steadily exercised under a judicious system , which prevents it . The wilful destruction of property called
fri _" smashing ghtful scenes - " so of common violence in described these Convict by the Prisons Prison , Matron or the ,,
authority do not occur ! Whence in well- this , ordered difference gaols , ? as Wh we y have are those heard establish on good
ments which are supported by the country at so large a cost to remain in this unsatisfactory state ? Surely the closest
investigation should be made ; for are not these women , if discharged unreformed , certain to become centres of evil influence to
increasing those around crim them e , and , as becoming they have _perhajo been s at the Liverpool mothers , of thus a
progeny of convicts ? _suggestions We might respecting be expected the to re feel -organising a hesitation of the in offering system any of
treatment of female convicts which ought to be made , know , - ing well what difference there must be between the
treatvoluntary ment of children institution and . of Confident adults , between as we feel a in government our princip and les of a
management and believing them applicable both to young and we old , not we mi know ght how hesitate successfull to obtrude they them have on been public carried notice out , did in
the Irish Convict Prisonson a y system which has stood the test of the severest scrutiny , the , closest investigation . It would be
superfluous here to say what has there been done , what _triumj ) hant victories over vice have been achieved ; for two
years ago this Association had the privilege of being eyewitnesses approbation of the the system whole as , carried and of out endorsing by the Board with their of Directors strong ,
rem under arkable their union admirable of the Chairm varied an , talents Sir Walter needed Crofton for the , whose work with a benevolence and devotion which , enlisted those under ,
him to labour with them—planned and executed a work
258 The Treatment Of Female Convicts.
258 THE TREATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/42/
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