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Category: Holloway Prison

  • Visiting HMP Holloway

    Roz Currie, Curator Holloway Prison closed this summer -the last prisoner left on 17th June 2016. Until May it was the largest women’s prison in Britain, holding around 450 inmates. Entrance to Holloway Prison just before it closed in June 2016 The prison was established in 1852 on Camden Road in Holloway,…