Last week, the Government announced the closure of Holloway jail. A religious sister who works there as a chaplaincy volunteer describes the injustices suffered by inmates and asks how the Christian virtues of reconciliation and redemption could be more effective in the penal system Baroness Helena Kennedy famously called her landmark study of women in prison, Eve was Framed. While this might not be true of all women in British prisons today, a strong case can be made that the incarceration of many of them has more to do with the way in which society seeks to punish socially or psychologically delinquent women than with crime per se.It would be good to think that the Government’s decision to close HMP Holloway is based on the realisation that imprisoning women for non-violent crime