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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 11 January 2008

Women to protest after latest prison death

CAMPAIGNERS will demonstrate outside Holloway Prison next week after details emerged of the fourth woman to die at the jail since 2004.
Campaigner Pauline Campbell, 59, has vowed to continue her protest over deaths of women in custody following the death of 24-year-old Jamie Pearce.
Ms Pearce, 24, was found dead in her cell at 7am on December 10 after a suspected overdose. Mrs Campbell wants to raise public awareness of the deaths following the death of her 18-year-old daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, in Styal prison in 2003.
She said: “I want to stop other families going through the heartbreak I did.”
A spokewoman for the Ministry of Justice said: “Prison staff and paramedics attempted CPR but Ms Pearce was pronounced dead at 7.10am.
“Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Ms Pearce. As with all deaths in custody, there will be an investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.”
Eight women took their own lives in prison last year, more than the whole of 2005 and 2006 put together. Jamie Pearce was the eighth woman to die in prison in 2007.
The demonstration will take place on Wednesday, at 1.30pm outside HMP & YOI Holloway, in Parkhurst Road.

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