The laundries have reflectometers, devices to check the whiteness of towels after they've been washed.
The laundries which were attached to refuges were hard and demanding places to work.
Statistics in the report are based on records of eight of the 10 laundries.
It found "evidence of direct State involvement" in numerous aspects of the 10 laundries' operation.
At his insistence, the laundries have reflectometers, devices to check the whiteness of towels after they've been washed.
Maureen Sullivan said she left the laundries unable to communicate properly, with low self-esteem and virtually no education.
Fifteen percent spent more than five years in the laundries while the average stay was calculated at seven months.
The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses that operated in Ireland and where girls and women had to do unpaid, manual labour.
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Women were forced into Magdalene laundries for a crime as minor as not paying for a train ticket, the McAleese report found.
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Wives in Sunday dresses embraced their husbands, some of whom had been washing their clothes by hand since shutting down the base laundries.
Magdalene laundries were places for what were described as "fallen women".
The lack of personal records has also made it difficult for the adopted children of those locked up in the laundries to trace their mothers.
We hope that this report gives all women who lived in refuges and worked in laundries a sense that they have been heard, believed and are not forgotten.
In response, the Irish government set up an inter-departmental committee, chaired by Senator Martin McAleese, to establish the facts of the Irish state's involvement with the Magdalene laundries.
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An act passed in 2002 addressed abuse and neglect suffered by thousands of Irish children in state-licensed residential homes and schools, but omitted those who'd suffered in the Magdalen Laundries.
He added that the report found no evidence of sexual abuse in the laundries and that 10% of inmates were sent by their families and 19% entered of their own volition.
Responding to its findings, Ireland's taoiseach, or prime minister, Enda Kenny said he was sorry for the stigma the women had suffered and the conditions they endured in the convent-run laundries.
Some of the women were sent to laundries more than once, as records show a total of 14, 607 admissions, and a total of 8, 025 known reasons for being sent to a laundry.
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Senator McAleese's inquiry found that half of the girls and women put to work in the laundries were under the age of 23 and 40%, more than 4, 000, spent more than a year incarcerated.
The report's authors spoke to about 100 women who had worked in the laundries between the foundation of the Irish state in 1922 and the closure of the last of the workhouses in 1996.
The report, released Tuesday, acknowledges that Ireland's government sent thousands of women and girls to "harsh and physically demanding" workhouses known as Magdalen Laundries, where they worked and lived without pay, sometimes for years.
The Irish government's decision to apologise to the women who worked in the Magdalene Laundries - workhouses run by nuns - has prompted members of the Bethany Home Survivors Group group to say they also want justice.
About 10, 000 women worked in the so-called Magdalen, or Magdalene, Laundries over seven decades -- and more than a quarter of them were referred there by the state, for various reasons including by the courts as a condition of probation, according to the report.
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