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Radio 4,2 mins

The first prison for female convicts

London's Oldest Prison: A History of Criminal Justice

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Award-winning historian Jerry White and Reverend Phil Chadder explain how the end of transportation to Australia in the 1850s forced the government to convert HMP Brixton into a prison solely for female convicts - the first of its kind in the country.

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