Mavis Gallant interviews prisoners and staff at Canada’s first women’s prison, the Mercer Reformatory for Females in Toronto.
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Neglected, abandoned, often abused, their characters were formed long before they reached the Mercer with its indelible stamp of prison. Some of the girls are never visited. Others, paroled home, are constantly reminded that they were lawbreakers.
On Gallant’s feminism in her article on the Mercer women.
