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HM Prison Holloway was a closed category prison for adult women and young offenders in Holloway, London, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. It was the largest women's prison in western Europe, [ 2 ] until its closure in 2016.
Robert was moved to Holloway Prison on 18 July and remained there until the trial. He was observed by the Medical Officer, George Edward Walker, who on 10 August, on advice from the guards, moved him to a padded cell for his own safety. He told Walker he heard voices telling him to kill his mother and he had an "irresistible impulse to kill her".
Joanna Elizabeth Kelley OBE (née Beaden; 1910 – 2003) was a British prison governor and civil servant. She led prisons in Britain, including Holloway Prison, where she changed the way prisoners were treated during and after their sentence. She was promoted from Governor to a position where she oversaw the rebuilding of Holloway Prison to ...
Sarah Lynne Reed [1] (22 June 1984 – 11 January 2016) was a British prisoner waiting for psychiatric reports before a possible trial. A woman with a history of mental health problems, and a victim of police brutality a few years earlier, Reed died while on remand in Holloway prison. [2]
The Holloway brooch was designed by Sylvia Pankhurst. Made of silver, it depicts the portcullis symbol of Parliament and a broad arrow, associated with prison uniforms, in purple, white, and green enamel. [1] [2] The brooches were given to suffragettes upon their release from Holloway. [4] The size is one inch by 3 ⁄ 4 of an inch. [5]
A suffragette being force-fed; Shipley endured this treatment in 1912 in Holloway Prison. Alice Maud Shipley (5 June 1869 – 16 December 1951) was a militant suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) [1] who received a prison sentence during which she went on hunger strike and was force-fed, for which action she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal.
Katie Gliddon's prison cell in Holloway Prison – drawn by her in 1912 in her copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Gliddon joined the Croydon branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in about 1910 at about the same time that her brother Cuthbert Paul Gliddon was acting as an organiser of the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement.
A suffragette is force-fed in HM Prison Holloway in the UK during hunger strikes for women's suffrage; Pendred endured this for two months. [1]Pleasance Pendred (15 July 1864 – 29 September 1948) was a British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette [2] who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed.