
Cries For Help
Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries
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Cries For Help
Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries
About this book
Cries for Help opens a window on the closed world of Holloway, other women's prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s. This was an era when personal style and charismatic leadership was the order of the day for governors and prison officers, before ideas of 'new management', when problems were solved using personal initiatives. It catalogues the daily lives of women prisoners, their anxieties, fears and preoccupations. The book looks at a lost segment of the population, hundreds of women who were hidden from view, lacking a voice, part of a system for men that hardly knew what to do with them. It contains stories about murderers and other serious offenders and looks at their personal correspondence, including that of moors murderer Myra Hindley.
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Table of contents
- Copyright and Publication Details
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Joining the Service
- ‘Nicks’ for Women 1970 — 1977
- Women’s Voices
- Cries for Help
- ‘And you the Governor shall hold........’
- Day by …
- ……………………….Day
- Friends and Lovers
- Families Left Behind
- Rooftops and Barricades, Riots and a Horse Race
- Will We Have to Call You ‘Madam’ Now?
- Reflections
- Personal Timeline for Joanna Kozubska, 1970-1977
- Index