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HM Prison Holloway

London Borough of Islington, United Kingdom · built 1852

HM Prison Holloway was a closed-category prison for adult women and young offenders in Holloway, London, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Opened in 1852 as a mixed-sex prison and made female-only in 1903, it was the largest women's prison in western Europe until its closure in 2016.

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