Female Prisoners
The jail arrangement of the twentieth century was exceptionally merciless to its inhabitants. Numerous where ineffectively administered to despite the fact that they were detainees of the law. Numerous cell mates turned out to be sick stricken due to such a variety of irresistible infections that were swarming the corridors of penitentiaries. There was a sorry tend to deterrent measures to safeguard the regulation of diseases. Numerous female prisoners kicked the bucket for not being dealt with for things, for example, vermin in cells and venereal maladies. Venereal sicknesses mean sexually transmitted illnesses. These sorts of ailment were broad all through the female populace in detainment facilities. They were likewise a major issue in view of how simple they could be spread all through the cell pieces. Kate Richards O’Hare, Agnes Smedley, and Donald Lowrie attack the unsanitary and corrupt
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As claimed by Smedley, “she asked that the vermin be cleaned from the cell of one of the girls; the matron ordered her to attend to her own affairs – that it was not her cell (Smedley 70). The matrons of the prisons were basically women in charge medical needs of the prisoners. They didn’t care much for the inmates if they let vermin such as rats roam throughout cell. One would think matrons being women would try to help them in the best way possible even though they are convicts. Usually you will see women looking out for one another, but not in the case of 20th century prisons. Smedley concurs when she notes “she asked that the girl with the venereal disease be taken to the hospital; the physician accused her of believing in free love and in Bolshevism” (70). Bolshevism is a form of government from Russia that deals with communism. Believing in other forms of government may have played a part in how the ladies of the prison were treated. Maybe the hierarchy of the system wanted them converted to American
As claimed by Smedley, “she asked that the vermin be cleaned from the cell of one of the girls; the matron ordered her to attend to her own affairs – that it was not her cell (Smedley 70). The matrons of the prisons were basically women in charge medical needs of the prisoners. They didn’t care much for the inmates if they let vermin such as rats roam throughout cell. One would think matrons being women would try to help them in the best way possible even though they are convicts. Usually you will see women looking out for one another, but not in the case of 20th century prisons. Smedley concurs when she notes “she asked that the girl with the venereal disease be taken to the hospital; the physician accused her of believing in free love and in Bolshevism” (70). Bolshevism is a form of government from Russia that deals with communism. Believing in other forms of government may have played a part in how the ladies of the prison were treated. Maybe the hierarchy of the system wanted them converted to American