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HOW GIRL CRIMINALS ARE CURED.
LESS AMENABLE THAN BOYS.
THE AYLESBURY BORSTAL INSTITUTE.
[BY HV MORTON.J
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The Girls' Boratal Institute of dis not ve under prison con- Aylesbury is one of the most tragic ditions. Their cells nee neat little buildings England. It has bedrooms, tively decorated and I believe, been fully describurnished. The girls are encourag naver, ed before. In
one section of the to make pillow and nightdress women cases, with blue and pink bows disused gabi are seven
the crosswise in serving life sentences for murder: wwn in another section are the seventy These are set aut on each bed. The six bad gins of England.
gişla also treasury postcards and pictures, which they put out on the little tables of their rooms. The only photographs of men which are permitted to gaze out Nhose of at Borstal girl are Inther, brother, or bona fide, sweet- heart.
I went to Aylesbury with the words of a Home Office official fresh in my mind. A bad girl." he said. "da infinitely worse than a bad boy. A bad boy is like the oncate's famous egg, good pars but a bad girl-ny aust
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While we were walking along the dormitory peeping into these ment the rooms, a girl who had been tidying her bedroom came out and brought to the governor for appte- cintion the latest addition to her picture gallery. It was not the
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It may seem strange to many that there should be over 1,000 had boys is the "Borstal System and only seventy-six girls. These figures are not so flattering to the Banuale sex as they appear. · The reason why there are so few Bor- stab girls is because courts of law try every, possible expedient before they lock up a young girl for a period of years When, a boy is sharged a court says: "Send bin to guol or Borstal!" but a corre pondingly bad girl is, time after me, put on probation in the hops that she will run straight. Whes the continues to enter the dock the
Isn't it lovely, miss?" asked court, with a weary but still relac-the girl. It's my aunty! tact gesture, then sends her for Borstal treatment.
"Cheer up The result of this sentimental and
02 the other teressengemeinschaft Farbeninalus- forbearance is that, while 60 per
tric) has decided on the issue carly cent, of the Borstal boys are caught Stumpy And Quite' Tame.
next year of Debentures to the young in crime, t0 per cent of
Borstal girls are trained solely the Borstal girls are hardened
for domestic service. They have offenders. I believe that experts
to pass examinations in every will agree with me when I say that branch before they can leave. We it would be a kindness to send
entered a large laundry in which of fresh capital has made the thene girls to Borstal much earlier.
twenty girls were washing the directors rather more communien. The Women's Prison at Ayleinen of the establishment. They tive than is their wont, and they bury and the likewise disused
were ́alb between the ages of six-lifta corner of the veil which usual State Inebriate Reformatory are.
teen and twenty-me, and nearly by hides their momentous operations for prison buildings, quite good
all of the same stumpy city type. from the public eye. It is admit ocking. They stand on the main They looked healthy and quite ted by impleation that a portion road a few minutes' walk from tame:
They smiled 1.6 the of the vast sum which the public Aylesbury. Many a convent has
governor. and it was easy to see is to be invited to subsoribe is re much more depressing walls.
that rebellion and hysterica are a quired for the development of the thing of the past. London sends! few girls to Borstal-Ibn ends this room the accents of Manches- ter, Leeds, and Birmingham.
We opened a door and entered. quite surprisingly (at least, to me
There was one small pursery baby in it and--no need for ex-
Woman Governor.
Miss Lilian Barker, who made her narre as a social worker during the war, when she had charge of 30,000 munition girls at Woolwich, is the governor. She has uncon ventional views on prison reform. "I'came here a sentimentalist, she admitted to me came-be-planations:- cause I cared for these girls, and I thought that love would de everything. I soon found I had pretty tough material to handle. The girls thought that they had got hold of a soft-hearted "fool, and they began to play me up. I had to alter my theories and impose strict discipline."
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One of the rarest experiences we have, anid Miss Barker, is the man who stands by a girl inality be reached trouble
There is a farm of twenty acres worked by the girls. This farm provides the institute with hutter, eggs, milk, bacon and market gar- den
produce.
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Ten Murderesses As Farm Hands.
We passed through a gate in a high wall, and saw the tragedy of Aylesbury. This was the old con- viet prison. It is separate from the Borstal institute, and the girls have no contact with it or with Regarding the general position women of the Trust, it is stated that factories are still busty employed. Its total staff has been increased curing 1927 by 20,000, which brings it up to 110.000. Thi figure is independent of the daugh- tor companies. A dividend of 12 per cent, le promised for the cur rent year.
Miss Barker had not been talk-
problem of the gift is much more complex than that of the boy. You can capture a boy and hold him, but you never know when you have gained the confidence and
those it contains. Joyalty of a bad girl.
wearing black oilskin coats over its subject to sudder. epidemic oct- brenks of violence. On a normal rough clothes were raking leaves night, when all is quiet, there from a grass plot. A wardress in sounds, the crash of breaking glass; a blue cont stood near" watching then the smashing spreads! An them. The ben women had all been unsuspected girl has growned condemned to death for murder, denly violent! She has torn up and their sentences had been com her Prayer-book! Then her brd-muted to penal servitude for life. clothes! Then the small furniture, It was strange and terrible to
goes and finally out
chair look at them and bear. "Thrs is through the window! This hysteria the woman who stabbed her lover sprends until several girls are dis- in Epping Forest, and that one- bending down now is the nurse covered lying on the floor crying put the heads of three children and kicking.
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in & gas oven, and that older woman killed her husband....
Plea For Help. soon stopped there distress- ing outbreaks," evid Miss Barker. assembled the girls and asked them to help me to stop it. I den vised a badge to be worn by those girls who were willing to back me, and all but two were eager to do 50, Those two eventually came in."
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It is difficult with girls' to separate sexual immorality Irons the long list of offences which
Young Women. - Most of them were young women,
even their rough clothes could. not quite hide the grace of their movements as they bent over the dead leaves; and they were shut in for life behind that high. red wall. It is true that good conduct may see them out in the world again as old, broken women
I went to the cells. In one a qualify for Borstal. The profes lovely young girl lay in bed, a gional prostitute is a model girl consumptive Rush on her face. in an institution. A much more The light from a barred window hit up her aubarn hair, so that I dificult girl is the unmoral girl,
The crimes for which my girls could are nothing at first in the are now paying the penalty id dark cell but a pile of bright gold on the pillow. She also was a Miss Barker,
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