In re Williamson
Washington Supreme Court
Application filed in the supreme court April 27,1921, for a writ of habeas corpus to release the petitioner from the county jail of Spokane county, after conviction and sentence to the women’s industrial home and clinic.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The legislature, at its biennial session of 1919, provided for the creation of a penal institution to be known as the “Women’s Industrial Home and Clinic.” (Laws of 1919, p. 570, ch. 186.) The act, as expressed in its title, was designed to provide a place-for the “custody, training and treatment of delinquent and diseased women.” The body of the act was somewhat broader than its title indicated. Aside from a few excepted instances, it provided for the confinement therein of all women convicted of crime in any of the courts of the state exercising criminal jurisdiction,, whether felonies,…
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