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| Irish emigrants to the USA, 1850 |
Contrary to nurtured assumptions
few female Irish emigrants became domestic servants,
cooks, wives and mothers with reputations
for diligence and rectitude.
In the 1860s,
Irish people made up about a quarter of New York’s population
but Irish men comprised half of the male prison population
and Irish women 86% of imprisoned females.
A survey of 1,238 foreign-born sex workers in the city
found that 706, just over half, were Irish.
On the subject of women and prison,
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| Penal colony for women, Perm, Russia, 1990 |
An inmate serves boiled water
instead of tea or coffee to a prisoner in solitary confinement.
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