New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-10
GIRLS FROM PRISON
FIND Her FIRST AID
Miss Doty, Who Did Time
10 Investigate, Finds
Jobs for Many.
THEY BEAT IT BACK"
TO RESPECTABILITY
MICH Being Accomplished. Says
Woman Expert, BIT Finds Arc
Needed to Help Work.

ono ~ The rc-aits Of the time" Miss
Madeline DoN cid al Auburn Prison FOR
Women last faU in the course o. hcr IN
ytstisauon Ter the Prison Commission. is
that she IS now being Gclusca vi;h letters
from her former prison mates asking FOR
he- assistance when they arr released.
This Miss Doty is only too happy to
give SO Ions ~ tho Jobs hold out but
times arc hard even for girls who have
40 prison record. and the number OF per
soral friends upon whom one can depend
To give positions TO friendless ex-convicts
is limited. So Miss Doty has reached the
point where she mus; call upon the public
Tor nci3. Any one who has d decent old
suit or % vacancy in her kitchen Is invited
TO help the Auburn girls in beating it
back" TO respectability.
clothing is the frs; need Of the girls.
Sid Miss Doty las, n!sht The prison
sends them out with new clothing. OF
course but the New York police recognize
that Car5. You ana J wouldn't know 1t
on the street but the police do. because
il il an Of the same weave and coior.
The shoes are the first thing the police
recognize. however. They are all made
i'm prison. YOU know. and nave round toes
and bulky soles. and are like no other
shoes in the world. The first thing 4
woman does when she reaches the city
IS to buy 2 new pair Of shoes. We'll. that
takes s.. They usually start her out from
Auburn with $40. BY the time she has
bought her ticket to New York and her
shoes she has s. left That doesn't go
very far in the middle OF the winter If
YOU haven't any friends or any Job.
A girl came 10 me last week with eX-
actly 20 cents. She had bought white
waist as well as SHOES, and she had been
hunting for a job FOR Two days. She WAS
about ready TO give up. ! found room
for her. and the next day I got her JOB
as a domestic servant with friend Of
mine She is doing so well that the
woman next door wants me to get her a
girl from Auburn. too.
This girl had been IN prison for seven
years. and was one Of the incorrgioles
She had spent seven months a time
In solitary confinement She wasn't bad
lust high spirited. When ] went into tie
ward the first nisht I was there IL was
she VINO risked seven more months Of
solitary confinement TO say Hello TO me.
The old prison system was all wrong for
girl like that She told me that when
she got out she was going 10 get out
OF society everything that society had
taken from her
Then they got 4 new matron-'Mother
DAILY. they call her. The discipline oil
the place changed; they were allowed 10
talk and smile. They were allowed TO
write TO me They felt that some one
was interested in their welfare. The re
suit Of this system is seen in the charac-
ter Of that girl
"If the woman just released from prison
isn't given helping hand By society, she
knows very well what she can do and
lust where she can find friends who will
welcome her gladly The old gans VIII
never turn her away. What else does So
cjetv expect her to do? We take all her
friends away. They have forgotten all
about the black sheep, anyway. Unless
she has parents waiting for her, the
world Is almost empty after seven years
There IS a woman in Auburn to-day
who had a pretty little home. she was
arrested for having stolen goods. | be-
lieve she was innocent but the point IS
that when her sister went TO that fiat TO
store the goods for her, the cut glass and
linen and all the movable things were
gone. The convict has no redress against
any one who wants to make off with any
Of her property. The ianitor-the police
know that.
There ought. above all things. though
10 be an awakening of public interest IN
the work of the Prison Association. This
society was formed to help men who
were released from prison. and II IS only
recently that it has taken up any cases
of women Its funds are limited. ana
unless II has some assistance II can do
M creat amount OF good