Rules were strictly enforced, and O'Connor was sent to sleep at a nursing home next door for minor infractions.
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We see this in India and Nepal, where there are menstrual huts that you are sent to sleep in during your period.
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One time he showed up drunk at an event and was sent to sleep in a hotel room with a female planter to sleep it off.
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Deep into the night, after his wives and small children were sent to sleep, Kony called George to his table where a few commanders, including Dog's Knee, kept the boss company.
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Pammy burst into tears, and Paulie began pounding Paul, Sr., so fiercely in the groin with his tiny fists that he had to be sent to— Well, he certainly had not been sent to sleep in the garden shed in the dark of night.
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Oliver is sent to sleep in the basement with the coffins ("Where Is Love?"). The next morning Noah Claypole, another employee of Sowerberry, insults Oliver's dead mother, whereupon Oliver begins pummeling him. Mrs. Sowerberry and her daughter, Charlotte, also Noah's girlfriend, run in, and Mr. Bumble is sent for. He and the Sowerberrys lock Oliver in a coffin, but during all the commotion Oliver escapes.
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Foa notes that most kids during the summer months were sent to sleep away camps, during four years covering his middle school time, for him it was an all boys sports camp. He considered it a “living nightmare” except for the plays they did and the waterfront. His view of the performing arts expanded greatly when he attended Interlochen Center for the Arts—a Northern Michigan prestigious school for music, dance, writing, film, visual arts and theater—during his four summers of high school in the 1990s, “It instilled the passion and the drive that I feel toward my craft and my business.
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Once the dinner that would have been prepared by a cook would have been served and eaten, the guests would be sent to sleep. On the wedding day, the guests would be served an early lunch so they would be ready in time to take the bride from her house. The first to make their way to the wedding would be the women and the dowry cart and the men would set off half an hour later. Upon their journey to and from the bride's house and back to the groom's house, the guests would throw cigarettes to the people they would meet in a sign of respect.
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At the age of 15, her shoplifting and truancy led to her being placed for eighteen months in a Magdalene Asylum, the Grianán Training Centre run by the Order of Our Lady of Charity. In some ways, she thrived there, especially in the development of her writing and music, but she also chafed under the imposed conformity. Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, "I have never—and probably will never—experience such panic and terror and agony over anything."Rolling Stone, April 1988 O'Connor in June 1993 wrote a public letter in The Irish Times which asked people to "stop hurting" her: "If only I can fight off the voices of my parents / and gather a sense of self-esteem / Then I'll be able to REALLY sing ..." The letter repeated accusations of abuse by her parents as a child which O'Connor had made in interviews.
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