A look at life inside one of the notorious Magdalene Asylums where women – who the Catholic Church adjudged to have stepped out of line in some way – were incarcerated and abused. A chilling portrayal of what happens when the state gives unfettered power to a religious institution which then uses it to literally batter the population into submission. Survivors of the Magdalene laundries are still fighting for the Vatican to recognise the enormous suffering inflicted on them by the Church.

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