Magdalene laundries, right? I wanted to see that.
Yes, they were called laundries or asylums. I found the movie Magdalene Sisters enlightening because I didn’t know these places even existed. I knew there were homes for unwed mothers and asylums for the mentally ill but girls who did nothing wrong could be sentenced to one of these “laundries” by her own family simply for giving the appearance that she might not have the highest of values (flirty, promiscuous, bad-temptered etc.) and it could be very harsh there.