breezy, if you mean me and the film The Magdalene Sisters (of 2002, not directly related to JM's song) - I never saw it. But if the point of your question is whether I approve of any of those practices in any way, the answer is of course no. And I know many examples of real persons who, like the fictitious Mother Superior, turn their own personal frustrations into fierce hatred of "public enemies" - preferably of whole groups -, making the haters look justified and like defenders of the public good, e.g. their religion.

It is of course easy for us to condemn them if we do not disapprove of their victims. In other cases it becomes much more complicated. For an encyclopedia of current "public enemies", just read Mudcat BS.