ABSTRACT
Eliza Orme was a practising lawyer and social activist. She advocated for higher education and independent careers for unmarried women. She was a member of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage; and of the Women’s Liberal Federation, later Women’s National Liberal Federation. Orme had also been a member of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, for which she had examined female prison staff and inmates. In the article in the Fortnightly Review, she first of all doubted that the Gladstone recommendations had been sufficiently implemented when it came to female prisoners. She wanted more prison staff, including medical staff, to be women; and she wanted them to be better trained and to work fewer hours. Without fear of exaggeration, that the whole of the system of prison administration, so far as it affects female criminals, requires overhauling, and the statistics published by the Commissioners prove it beyond doubt.
