Report into the Magdalen Laundries

The report into the Magdalen Laundries (Report of the Inter-departmental Committee to establish the facts of State Involvement with the Magdalen Laundries), which were run from 1922 up until 1996, is now available on the Department of Justice and Equality's website.
The report was chaired by Senator Martin McAleese and provides an insight into the running of the laundries, the women who were put in to or entered the laundries; and also evidence of the involvement of the State.
The report aims to dispel some of the myths about what type of women were forced into the laundries and for what reasons.

The library will have paper versions of the report available as soon as it possible.

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