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Centre quoted in Evening Standard on Holloway plans
In advance of a community gathering outside the former Holloway prison this Saturday, 18 February, to call for the Visitors' Centre to be opened for community use, the Centre's Deputy...
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Prison sales no 'cash cow'
Building magazine examines progress on the government's new-build prisons programme concluding that the sale of 'old Victorian' prisons is unlikely to be a 'cash cow' for the Treasury.
The article questions the profitability and viability of closing and selling old prisons to...
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Give Holloway prison visitors' centre to local community
We are supporting local organisations in their call for the Ministry of Justice to open the visitors' centre at the former Holloway prison site in Islington.
Holloway prison closed in 2016. It is likely to be several years before any redevelopment of the site is completed. Just...
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Redevelop Reading prison to benefit local community
The redevelopment of the former Reading prison should benefit the local community, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has said.
The former prison has been hosting an arts exhibition – Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison – since September,...
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What now for the Holloway prison site?
Good evening and welcome to this important public meeting on the future of the Holloway prison site.
The organisation I and colleagues work for – the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies –...
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Call for more homes, not prisons
A couple of weeks ago we reported on a visit to the now closed Holloway prison by our Deputy Director, Will McMahon, and London Assembly Member Sian Berry.
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Holloway: 5,000 or 500 homes?
In late August news sources reported that commercial property consultants Bilfinger GVA have been instructed to advise on the sale of the Holloway...
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Reclaim Holloway campaign launch new website
Women in Prison, in collaboration with the Reclaim Justice Network, have set up a website for their campaign demanding that council housing be built on the site of soon-to-be sold Holloway prison. The prison is due to be closed...
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Who will prison building 'revolution' benefit?
Maureen Mansfield and Hannah Pittaway writing for the Left Foot Forward website outline some of the issues arising from the forthcoming closure of Holloway prison - the only...
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Alternatives to Holloway
Rebecca Roberts, the Centre's Senior Policy Associate, has written about the closure of Holloway prison, drawing on the Alternatives to Holloway pamphlet published in 1972. She writes:
Some 44 years later and prison numbers have rocketed. In the 30 years leading up to
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