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Holloway prison in Islington, north London, first opened in 1852. At the time, it was the largest women's prison in Western Europe, as well as the first female-only local prison in the UK.
When it closed last year – more than 160 years after first opening – this could have marked recognition, finally, of the damaging knock-effects on entire communities when women are incarcerated.
