Joanna Elizabeth Kelley OBE was a British prison governor and civil servant.
13 Facts About Joanna Kelley
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Joanna Kelley led prisons in Britain, including Holloway Prison, where she changed the way prisoners were treated during and after their sentence.
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Joanna Kelley was promoted from Governor to a position where she oversaw the rebuilding of Holloway Prison to allow better conditions, but those ideas were never realised.
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Joanna Kelley's mother, Joanna Elizabeth Kelley was an artist.
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Joanna Kelley's father was killed in Iraq when she was a child.
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Joanna Kelley was educated in Kent at Hayes Court boarding school and Girton College, Cambridge where she read Economics.
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Joanna Kelley's husband returned to the USA and she came back to Britain.
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Joanna Kelley considered her marriage vows sacrosanct and she decided that she would not re-marry.
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Joanna Kelley became a YWCA youth club leader in 1939.
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Meanwhile Joanna Kelley was deputy governor of HM Prison Askham Grange and Governor from 1952 until 1959, when she became Governor of Holloway.
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Joanna Kelley became Assistant Director of Prisons in 1966 and the following year, she published When the Gates Shut about her time at Holloway.
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Joanna Kelley felt this was wrong as at the time most women prisoners were not violent.
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Joanna Kelley's ideas were in the design of the buildings but her ideas were never enacted.