500 pages of new testimony on Magdalene laundries

Justice for Magdalenes is to submit over 500 pages of newly gathered survivor testimony to Senator Martin McAleese — testimony in which women say they were imprisoned in Magdalene laundries and had worked without pay.

Mr McAleese heads up the inter-departmental committee which was set up to “clarify” any involvement by the State in the Magdalene laundries.

The testimony concerns women who said they were imprisoned in the laundries, returned by gardaí if they tried to escape, and were never paid for work.