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that had previously held a school (Burlington Academy), which closed in 1853, with the prison constructed on the site of the school's former cricket pitch. The prison included a large building, which consisted of workshops, schoolrooms, dormitories, a bakery and wash house; officers' accommodation,
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Part of the reasoning behind calling it a "refuge" rather than "prison" was that potential employers might be less reluctant to employ such women and help them to transition back to respectability, especially as women were often judged more harshly than men; and that there was always rough work
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Fulham was the "most distinctively feminine of the early convict prisons", and tried to train women with skills suitable for subsequent employment, cooking, cleaning and laundry, with emphasis on "softening and civilising".
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Jebb's enlightened regime met with little success, and, after his death in 1863, the prison was expanded between 1870 and 1871 to hold about 400 women inmates and renamed
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that opened in 1856 and closed in 1888. The prison was intended to provide skills for prisoners to help rehabilitate them on their release back into the community.
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available for male former prisoners, but women were expected to be of "good character" for domestic service.
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and an infirmary. There were exercise grounds, a chaplain's house, along with an orchard and grounds.
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Fulham Refuge was initially used as part of a three-stage rehabilitation process championed by Sir
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Former buildings and structures in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
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History of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
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Women's prison in London, United Kingdom (1856–1888)
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The Illustrated London News
prison
Fulham
London
Burlington Road
Fulham Road
Joshua Jebb
Millbank Prison
Brixton Prison
HM Prison Woking
"London: The Refuge for female convicts at Fulham, antique print, 1858"
"Fulham Refuge (sometimes called Fulham Reformatory), Middlesex: female prisoners"
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"Fulham Park Gardens"


"Fulham Refuge"


The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society
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