News
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...
News
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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Holloway redevelopment plan a 'public scandal'
Plans to replace Holloway prison with expensive housing, unaffordable to most Londoners, have drawn criticism. It is not the first controversy to have dogged the future of the Holloway site.
The current prison was built in the 1970s and 1980s, replacing the original nineteenth century...
Comment
Close Holloway and then close all the large women's prisons
On 25 November 2015, the Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that he was planning to close HMP Holloway. What a good...
Comment
Holloway: The beginning of a revolution?
At this year’s Conservative party conference, Michael Gove apparently heralded in a new era for criminal justice reform. Prisons need to be managed better, he said. People in prison need to...
Comment
Beyond Govism
According to liberal commentators, Michael Gove's speech on penal reform at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, and his subsequent announcement that HMP Holloway was to close, will...
Comment
Housing support - or support for living? A reflection on needs and policy
It’s arguable that we know all we need to know about the housing needs of women leaving prison. Ever since the 2007 Corston...
Publication
Housing needs of women from minority ethnic groups leaving HMP Holloway
How can women from minority ethnic groups leaving prison be rescued from homelessness? This is the question asked by a new research report by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. Many women...
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