New sub. Thank you so much for this. I’m 71 and today’s tv is just utter rubbish. I love these older documentaries

when television had meaning.

What great time capsules these videos are. I was born in 1970. I wish BFI or Network would release all of Man Alive, Arena etc

When people were more intelligent no matter who they were than they are no today. They spoke better and they thought better!

1972: 40k male prisoners and 1k female. 2023: 83,128 men and 3,259 women in prisons in England and Wales

in today's world most of these ladies would never have been sent to prison just a suspended sentence

I was remanded to holloway for 3 weeks back in the 90 's it was enough to scare me into changing my life around from the day i was released and never looked back

Thanks for uploading this. I'm 53, so a little bit too young to remember it, but it certainly was very interesting.

This was a wonderful documentary. Thank you for posting.

Watching in 2024....wow how times have changed! Thanks Jenny for posting 😊

@32:32 Old Holborn dog-end-dog-end rollies. Now that, is doing some hardcore chokey! This was an excellent watch, and I would like thank yo for taking the time to upload it.

I'm 67 and a remember watching them. It's quite good to go back down memory lane.

This must have been filmed before february 1971 as they are talking about old currency.

It's postings like this that make KZfaq a fantastic place for entertainment. I just don't have the time to watch them all lol.

Absolutely brilliant born in 75 hows things have changed watching this in Carlisle Cumbria ❤❤❤❤

My goodness we don’t have polite detainees like that today !

Thank you so much for the upload

What a wonderful snapshot in time. .......Cheers.

When i look back on this and think about the lady that was in there for not having a TV licence she had five children and could not read or write .How times have changed .

This was so interesting. Thank you for uploading xx

then, young and still an old woman in her manners.. says something about our perception and how the generations work.. fascinating at the least

Locking up a young lassie with a 3 month old baby just for soliciting…..that’s so sad.

I'm so pleased to hear that - hope they include some of mine! Jenny

I have watched this documentary many times, each time, seeing & hearing something different. It’s a delightful film.

I am so pleased you enjoyed it Jenny

Very interesting documentary and slice of history. All the women were great characters.

A wonderful time capsule, back in the days when Women were proper ladies and could speak properly with no slang or without swearing.Not a tattoo or piercing in sight. As someone over 60 i find myself constantly looking back to the 70's as times were hard but a lot better than the entitled generation now

Thanks for posting Jenny 🥰

I love the honesty of that woman, who said that she turned to crime because she was too lazy to get a job

6:48 What a lovely well spoken soul Sandra is. Probably the victim of circumstances with being separated & having a young baby . She should have been given help not prison. I do hope her life turned out for the better .

Thank you, Jenny

I'm thoroughly enjoying these windows on the past that you made in the early 70's, Jenny. It seems to me that they have become priceless artefacts. Interestingly, the stated ratio of 40 male prisoners to 1female has altered little, according to my quick data search; but the numbers have doubled...77 thousand males to 3.4 thousand females in 2020. (x3.5 increase for female prisoners).

Thank you for this Jenny. I do recall a series called 'Lifer' in the early eighties that followed several people serving life sentences. The follow up in 2003 was very shocking, as some of them were still inside.

Holloway was the biggest eye opener i had when being in prison service. I was told 2002 you will never experience anything like this and how true they were.

Brilliant documentary often wondered what it looked like in the old holloway prison

When did people lose the ability to speak reflectively and interactively...

It's crazy to think that my mother (born in 1971) was only 1-year-old (probably not even) when this docu- mentary was made. She had me at 17, and I just turned 34 in June. 🥺💔💘

Nice bunch of ladies! I hope they were ok with their lives after being in prison 💖

so interesting Carol talks in the Myra Hindley prison documentary. It seems to be such a nice prison compared to what we have today.

29:10 the old Golden Wonder crisp bag design! God, that takes me back.

Fascinating. I loved Muriel was she from Leicester? Connie, work with women like that today. The Welsh woman was ace! Thank you for sharing I work with women released from Prison today. Great documentary.

How sedate and polite they all were! And wearing their own clothes!

Nice work Jenny. Absolutely disgraceful locking up grandmas etc. These ladies were angels imo. God bless every single one of them 🤜🤛

The girls who went there used to call it the Holloway inn...lol

Thank you so much Jenny. Loved this film, like going back in time. I was a teenager in the 70's, it was a great decade. Life back then might look grim but to us living it, it was all we knew, , it was normal. I am shocked and saddened to learn that Jean St Clair, the actress who burnt down her husband's gallery, died shortly after gaining her freedom. She gave brilliant performances during her interviews. Also loved Carole's honesty. All the women were brilliant, I bet they enjoyed seeing themselves on telly. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

20 yrs before I was housed in holloway I was in and out for 2 yrs this was alot different to when I was there

I love it!!!!! Thank you so so much😃 Keep yourself safe and with good health🙂 Greetings from Lillesand🇧🇻

So articulate, well spoke and polite! Society has turned to trash now because of liberalism and open b0rders. I hate the political classes who unleashed these policies on us.

I wish they had interviewed the old dear she looked a bit like Lizzie Birdsworth from the Wentworth Detention Centre. Makes you wonder whether Reg Grundy had seen this documentary. One of the others looked a bit like Franky Doyle....

First class thanks 🥃 x

I wonder if any of these ladies now their late 70’s + have watched themselves on this. I hope their lives improved.

the lady on the 30 minute mark is so strong, her ability to adapt, her structure, her amazing outlook and positivity has really touched me

Thank you so much for sharing - was there a second part at all?

Having to go out on the game when you just had a baby, shows how hard life was for her. I hope she and her baby had happier days.

I donno why, but as a kid, the theme tune to this made me sad ... watching this, I now know why...

1:54 can't wait to find out what Lady Muck did. Beat up one of her butlers? Oh, not far off... set fire to her husband's art gallery. If any of those other women had have been in there for setting fire to a public building, no way would he have suggested it was a waste of tax payer's money to send them to prison, no matter how articulate they were. Must be great having people so eager to please like they were your pet dog.

Man Alive really did put some good fly on the wall documentaries.

this is brilliant

That woman splitting the matches - ingenious.

Great times!! Not in prison , just a better community spirit and era. Sadly gone..

Life is all memory

At 1:00:23 in September 1972, Governor Dorothy Wing took Myra Hindley for a walk outside the prison, which caused a storm of controversy. I wonder how long before that incident this was filmed?

incredibly interesting. there's tons of docs on female prisoners now but back then there were practically none. very very interesting. i'm actually american but alot of people tend to want to idealize the past but i remember the 70's were extremely dark. and i was only a kid at the time and even i remember it vividly. i imagine it was much the same in other countries. and, of course, this being from the u.k. there's no shortage of mullets.

They all look like such normal everyday people.

People are so brash and self centred now. There's no humility or genuine self reflection to be found. Humanity has de evolved. Soon we'll be nothing but primordial ooze. I blame it on drugs and social media not necessarily in that order.

Such a great program. Why don't we see such things now?

They seem so much more better spoken and display a deference sadly lacking in todays folk. Why? Better discipline in schools? Recognising authority? We have regressed as a civil society.

Myra Hindley was in Holloway at the time. Did you have any interaction with her during filming, or was she strictly off limits? I can imagine it would be an instant no-no having her on film. Apparently the cell she was in appears!

Totally wonderful to watch

Facinating I was 7 years of age when this was filmed I’m now 60.The same problems are faced by each new generation in the journey of life we think at the time we are unique we are not.

these women doing prison time in the 70s is not a fraction what a lot of police officers have done who are still police officers in 2024. only in the uk cant make it up.

Where is part 2 of this?

Only 40k men were in prison at the time? That's ridiculously low

I've been looking for the 1992 holloway documentary but can't find it

So touching most of them girls and old women had such sweet innocent looking faces and if you them on your first day in there you wouldn't have felt scared as they seemed so gentle,not like today's with all the aggression and anger you see in modern documentaries about female prison imates you wouldn't care look them in the eye.

Life was different in the early seventies, not worse, but different....

Llove this theme tune wow the 70s

I just happened to see this documentary.How different it was then The women sentenced to prison are not REAL.crininals.Such gentle people who need help in their life not being sent to prison.So different then even the staff are so much kinder respectful and treat the prisoners with compassion and respect.Best wishes Jeremy Allfrey.

That Food Shot...That match trick...cool...

So good. So true

Jean looks like the actress Emma Thompson 😊

Does anyone have part 2 of this "Women in Prison: 2 - The Way Ahead?" ?

Are you sure this is 1972? The Times archive tv page is showing this as being shown on BBC2 at 20:10 on Wednesday 3rd March 1971. Also they are talking about the cost of items in pre-decimal prices and in the background on the radio Home Loving Man by Andy Williams is playing which was a hit in late 1970.

🇨🇦😘🎥I remember watching this doc. With my mom. 😊

At 50:18 she was lucky not to get life, which is often given for arson. You can't help wondering if her background hsd something to do with it.

That's my theme song right there!

Dont know about 1972 there talking in old money that was pre feb 1971

What did Muriel say the last bit of tobacco tastes like? Did she say "pot smoke"?

Very interesting

They lose their hearing from all of the noise!

I felt sorry for some of the women in the video for finding themselves in prison I used to drive past Holloway prison every morning on my way to work sad that people end up in prison especially some of those in the video excellent documentary thankyou

Hi Jenny, do you have any further information on the women featured in this documentary.

These woman arent hooked on drugs & visually look a mess,they seem somewhat more educated & rationale,its such a great watch from a time now gone

Such lovely music they used back then ,the music as the women are pushing the prams around the pleasant gardens ,.I'd like to know what it was or just composed for the television?

Crazy to think i can watch a documentary from 10 years before i was born in 72 on a device and platform that wasnt even invented when i was a child. We had no mobile phones and i still remember we had a black and white tv 😂 Technology has transformed this world, i dread to think what will be possible 20 to 30 years from now with mores law in action, meaning coumputer power chips double in speed every 1 to 2 years .

The old Holloway prison building 🏢🏫 I think that building got demolished In the 70's because the new building was built in the 1980's I think

Thank you for your interest. I should know about the women after they left prison but I was always abroad and did not find out. The prison itself was closed and now they are in more humane building.

Carole, was Myra Hindley best friend in prison

I believe Holloway is now going to be turned into posh flats.

@20:34 wow this young woman is so a head of her time, the interviewer is a typical victorian values ponce, "Would you consider yourself a lesbian out of jail?. No I would consider myself a normal woman." That shut him up lol. @29:46 the woman with the cigs is adorable