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- Almost immediately, the removal of 534 women held in Holloway began. They were moved to prisons outside London, causing upheaval and disruption for women in prisons across the country.
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Mar 13, 2018 · Almost immediately, the removal of 534 women held in Holloway began. They were moved to prisons outside London, causing upheaval and disruption for women in prisons across the country.
Mar 6, 2018 · Once the largest women’s prison in western Europe, Holloway in north London was closed in July 2016 after the government said the building was inadequate for offender rehabilitation.
- Steven Hopkins
Five years after the last women left its gates, the former Holloway prison site stands empty and deserted, a reminder both of the long struggle for women’s rights and liberation, and the thousands of women who lived there deprived of their freedom.
Aug 21, 2022 · Petty crimes, such as minor shoplifting or drunkenness, saw women handed a Holloway jail sentence. They lost everything – their reputation, their job, their family.
Feb 28, 2018 · Former guards, staff and inmates of Holloway Prison are being invited to share their stories to capture what went on behind the walls of what was the largest women’s prison in Britain.
Holloway Prison held female adults and young offenders remanded or sentenced by the local courts. Accommodation at the prison was mostly single cells; however, there was also some dormitory accommodation.
Until its closure in June 2016, Holloway Prison was western Europe’s largest women’s prison, holding over 500 inmates including both adult women and young offenders. Converted to a female-only establishment in 1902, the prison has housed women from all over Britain.
