Magdalene Laundry

Network of laundaries run by the Catholic Religious Cult. Operated by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order, the laundries were virtual slave labor camps for generations of young girls thought to be unfit to live in Irish society... Over a period of 150 years, an estimated 30,000 Women were forced into this brutal penance, carried out in secret, behind high convent walls... Incredibly, the last Magdalene laundry to shut down was in 1996... There have been no direct reparations from the Irish Catholic Church to the tens of thousands of women it used as slave labor. Nor has there been a formal apology.