Catholic Church enslaved 30,000 Irish women as forced unpaid labor in Magdalene Laundries until 1996

Women were locked in, couldn’t leave Magdalene Laundries for months, sometimes years. The women were locked in and not permitted to leave.  And if they tried to get away, the cops would catch them and bring them back. 

They were quite literally Catholic slave labor working for the government and even Guinness, which would pay the laundries for the women’s slave labor. Half of the girls enslaved in these Catholic Church prisons were under the age of 23.  The youngest entrant was 9 years old.

http://americablog.com/2013/02/magdalen-laundries-catholic-ireland-irish-apology.html