1. The Noble Castle: Holloway as a Victorian Radial Prison -- 2. The Prison Department, Women and Criminology -- 3. The Grim Fortress: The Condemning of the Victorian Prison -- 4. The Secure Hospital: Planning the New Holloway -- 5. Metamorphosis I: The Physical Reconstruction of Holloway -- 6. Metamorphosis II: The Penological Redefinition of Holloway -- 7. Metamorphosis III: The Social Transformation of Holloway -- 8. The Labyrinth: The New Holloway and its Problems -- 9. The Minotaur: Disturbed Women and Monstrous Visions -- 10. Theseus: Colin Allen and the Reformation of Holloway -- 11. Conclusion
Summary
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
