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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 ...
In 1971, the prison underwent an extensive programme of rebuilding, during which the bodies of all the executed women were exhumed for reburial outside the confines of the prison. [8] With the exception of Ruth Ellis , the remains of the women executed at Holloway (Edith Thompson, Styllou Christofi , Amelia Sach and Annie Walters ) were ...
Holloway Road, a road that bisects the district; HM Prison Holloway, originally a mixed population prison, but later a female-only prison. Closed in 2016; Holloway (ward), an electoral division of the London Borough of Islington; Lower Holloway, place in the London Borough of Islington; Upper Holloway, place in the London Borough of Islington
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.