CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Magdalene Sisters, Canadian Association Of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Penal Labour
22 Aug 2016
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Recent development: more cruel and unusual punishment up until the 1800s. Roman empire: any method of incarceration was used as a holding cell (waiting until their punishment) & penal servitude. Middle ages: used as holding cells for trials. Late 18th century: prisons were used as workhouses (industrial revolution, the magdalene sisters (documentary) Women were sentenced for crimes that they didn"t commit (crimes of sexuality) and brought to workhouses that the. Catholic sisters had owned and they had to submit to the ways of the sisters. Sister"s didn"t have to pay their employees" and they gained a lot more for their labour. Excessive form of control and punishments that went well beyond the known being in that time. The last magdalene institution closed was in 1966: song for a raggy boy (movie) The teacher (not religious) becomes an educator and there is a contest between the empowering educator and the abusive priests at a catholic reformatory school.
