Topic: Magdalene Laundries

Paul Serup recounts his failed attempts to get his book stocked at the Ford's Theatre and National Park Service bookstores, citing a lack of response as a form of soft censorship. The conversation then turns to the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, described as a system of institutionalized slavery for "fallen" women. Serup notes that the last of these Irish convent prisons did not close until 1996.