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1 online resource |
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""Cover""; ""Copyright and publication details""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Architectural Drawings""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Site plan of the original old Holloway Prison taken from historical drawings made in the 1850s.""; ""List of illustrations""; ""Dedication""; ""Foreword: Lord David Ramsbotham""; ""The Centre���The hub of the prison with its steel key safe and polished table""; ""Introduction: A Journey through Letters""; ""Cameo 1: A glimpse of a murderer""; ""CHAPTER 1: Joining the Service"" |
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""D Wing����Opera box lobbies with an infinity of little doors�""""CHAPTER 2: �Nicks� for Women 1970���1977""; ""CHAPTER 3: Women�s Voices""; ""Cameo 2: A glimpse of the �most evil woman in Britain�""; ""A long-term prisoner�s cell����Soft furnishings� and decoration by the occupant""; ""CHAPTER 4: Cries for Help""; ""Holloway Prison, Inner Gate (apparently inspired by Warwick Castle)""; ""CHAPTER 5: �And you the Governor shall hold ... �""; ""CHAPTER 6: Day by��""; ""Ground floor of F Wing or Borstal Recall sometimes called FDX"" |
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""CHAPTER 7: ���������. Day""""Cameo 3: A glimpse of a dying woman sentenced to hang for murder""; ""CHAPTER 8: Friends and Lovers""; ""An example of a letter from Myra Hindley to the author""; ""CHAPTER 9: Families Left Behind""; ""C Wing���One of the six prison wings, housing the hospital on the first two floors and the remand centre on the third and fourth floors""; ""CHAPTER 10: Rooftops and Barricades, Riots and a Horse Race""; ""Cameo 4: A glimpse of a personal cry?""; ""CHAPTER 11: Will We Have to Call You �Madam� Now?""; ""Flyaway Hair"" |
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""Treading the Boards""""A Woman of Convictions and Conscience""; ""Loaves of Bread and an Accordion""; ""Their Legacy""; ""CHAPTER 12: Reflections""; ""Looking Back""; ""Cameo 5: A glimpse of an innocent woman""; ""Personal Timeline for Joanna Kozubska, 1970-1977""; ""Index""; ""Invisible Women: What�s Wrong With Women�s Prisons""; ""Holloway Prison: An Inside Story""; ""A Good Man Inside: Diary of a White Collar Prisoner""; ""Her Majesty�s Philosophers""; ""Back cover"" |
| Summary |
Cries for Help opens a window on the closed world of Holloway, other prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s. This was an era when personal style and charismatic leadership were all the rage, before the days of 'new management', when problem-solving meant staff relying on convention and initiative. The book follows the preoccupations of women prisoners, their anxieties and fears: a hidden segment of the population, lacking a voice, lost in a system designed for men that needed to change. They include murderers, prostitutes and those in prison from misplaced loyalty whose stories of survival, relationships, remedies and sometimes regret, are told through their own letters and conversations (including those of moors murderer Myra Hindley who the author supervised). 'I hope that [the prison] authorities in particular will read and reflect on her brutally honest, human and very relevant book': Lord David Ramsbotham Joanna Kozubska was as an assistant governor at Holloway Prison and other custodial establishments for women in the 1970s. She hit the news when borstal girls climbed onto the roof of Holloway demanding that she should not be transferred out and later 'escaped notice' after escorting Myra Hindley out of the gates of Holloway for a headline-making walk on Hampstead Heath. Illustrated by Graham Savage. --From Amazon |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hindley, Myra.
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| SUBJECT |
Hindley, Myra fast |
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HM Prison Holloway.
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| SUBJECT |
HM Prison Holloway fast |
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Reformatories for women -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Reformatories for women
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014432934 |
| ISBN |
9781908162694 |
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1908162694 |
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1306563607 |
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9781306563604 |
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9781908162700 |
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1908162708 |
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1909976059 |
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9781909976054 |
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