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THE TBEATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS. 259
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Nine The Royal Year Assent S Have . Now ...
which , will benefit by its example not only Ireland but distant coun The tries difficul man . agement t than and that treatm of men ent of B convict ut he women surmoun he ted found the
more difficul t ty . The and disorderl Director has condu not ct . of there the to women comp . lain Th t are he ourageous y instances of insubordination ey
volumes do under not t t herefore ead we y firm have rise controul alluded to the , and to fri . gh tful There excesses is no described such comp in lain the t Ladtendent
thereas we find in the Report of the y Superin ferred of Brixton , to the Prison penal for and the last probatio year , n that classes which " 36 have at Millbank been trans , of
be whom cruel adequa . offence 13 te had , ! " " she There assaul says ted is , " a no officers very punishmen , di fferent t in sp this iri outrageous t prison existing coul d treatment is there
Mountjoy prison , and no specially severe required their fellow for creatures the u sava " g of e conduc which t of ferociousl laint is y in ade juring at comp
Brixton . The schoolmistress , has not to lament as at Brixton , in the terest impossibility in learning of and alone of controuling infusing int women o them who a real have desire no
to triking improve and their t minds tif . ing We have ectacle ourselves of the lesson witnessed room the at
improvin s Mountjoy g , to where mos the mutual the gra various y satisfaction sp classes of were teacher first going time and to on taug read and ht ;
and even submit grey-headed ting to women the drud learning gery involved for the in the the task with ,
tested cheerful by the gra voluntary teful alacrity institutions . The into results which of well system -disposed , are from which the
convicts are drafted on licenseand public trates can willin endorse g have ly receiv borne from e them their personal . strong To these testimony observation , the Four , . t t te Yorkshire Wh st imony t s t hould he which Mag t w is -
efforts be made to induce the governmeno er sysem fo elsewhere th r women princi ? p which les Why and has not me been enlist thod so unsuccessful which in the work ve , p the and roved voluntary to construct so successful efforts it on
of true-hearted womenas has been done in Ireland , and in our Reformatories ? Surel , y such may be t found t here as there b !
Thus and thus only do I believe thahese women can e rescued society , and from th stead eir evil of becomin ways , — g thu as s the may y do they now _, be its re ban stored e , may to
be made to become its blessing .
The Tbeatment Of Female Convicts. 259
THE TBEATMENT OF FEMALE CONVICTS . 259
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/43/
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