can't quite remember the name of the association, but one exists in Ireland to try and get the Irish government to acknowledge and apologise for the treatment meted out to the people in the laundries.
A while ago in Dublin during some preparation work for a new building a graveyard was unearthed on the site of one of these places presided over by the nuns. No records exist of the names of the girls buried there and no nun from that place has even said that such practices ie the enforced imprisonment of these girls, ever took place there.....but in my experience, that is a typical nun for you..........berates you for not going to confession (when you live miles away from the nearest catholic church) calling me (a 7yr old at the time) a heathen and later that day strikes several pupils with a wooden ruler on their knuckles.........
the fear of god was litlerally that to us........fear
three cheers for organised religion......not!