Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
5 December 1840
The Female Factory.—We understand that the cells are so full at this establishment that many women who are sentenced to undergo a period of confinement, are compelled to wait for upwards of a month before they can be accommodated, by means of which their assignees are made to suffer considerable inconvenience, and the unfortunate creatures who may be sent there are doubly punished.
See Original: “The Female Factory,” The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 – 1848), Saturday 5 December 1840, p.2
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