Suchergebnisse

On 1 April 1993 the Prison Service in mainland Britain acquired an
agency status. This is in conjunction with increasing news of
contracting out of services and outright privatization. Raises the
questions of whether the whole concept of agency status is a prelude to
privatization; what the implications are for industrial relations; and
is it part of the plan to marginalize the Prison Officers′ Association
(POA)? Concludes that the change of emphasis to agency status will not
address the current penal crisis in Britain.

Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. This work describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison from 1968 to 1988.

Surveys the work of the person charged with ensuring the efficient and fair running of the prison service. Looks at the typical career background of Chief Inspectors, their ideal approach to problems and issues they encounter, and the reports or reviews they write in the course of their work. (RSM)

London's Holloway Prison, the largest women's prison in western Europe, closed in 2016. The impact of the closure on the women incarcerated in Holloway, and the prison's place in the local community, is the focus of a project led by Islington Museum. Here, we develop an innovation, emotion-led methodology to explore photographs of the decommissioned Holloway, asking what they communicate about experiences of imprisonment and practices of punishment. The images illustrate the strategies of control, mechanisms of punishment and tactics of resistance that operate through the carceral space. From a feminist, anti-carceral perspective, we emphasise the importance of seeing prison spaces and attending to the emotional responses generated. We offer a creative intervention into dominant government and media narratives of Holloway's closure and suggest that considering what it is that feels familiar and strange about carceral spaces has the potential to operate as a form of anti-carceral work.