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Categories: Laundry, Magdalene asylums, Imprisonment and detention, Religious scandals, All articles lacking reliable references
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Magdalene asylum  Magdalene laundries  Irish laundry  Madgalen asylum  Magadalene Sisters Asylum Scandal
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Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalene laundries, were initially Protestant but later mostly Roman Catholic institutions that operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries, ostensibly to house "fallen women". Wikipedia
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Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalene laundries, were initially Protestant but later mostly Roman Catholic institutions that operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries, ostensibly to house "fallen women". Wikipedia
A religious prison for prostitutes and unmarried mothers, usually as a source of forced labour. Wiktionary