She was a Quaker, and was outraged at conditions for female prisoners in London’s Newgate Prison. She saw hundreds of women imprisoned together in wards. Convicted criminals were mixed with ...

After spells in Newgate, Pentonville and Wandsworth ... In 1949 she found herself in Holloway Prison, charged with assault. She claimed a man had been rude to her, so she slapped him.

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