Reconstructing a Women's Prison: The Holloway Redevelopment Project, 1968-88

by Paul Rock

Book Overview

The rebuilding of Holloway Prison in Britain, announced in 1968, was intended to be of enormous significance for the treatment and therapeutic rehabilitation of female inmates. Reconstruction began in 1970, but the new prison was not completed until 1985. By this time, penal ideologies had changed, and the Prison Department had revised its conception of women's criminality. The new prison became a place of conventional discipline and containment,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198260954
• ISBN13: 9780198260950
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"