The Suffragettes’ marches and demonstrations brought them into direct conflict with the police and hundreds were sent to Holloway – they were treated as first class or political prisoners. They could wear their own clothes, and unlike other inmates, they didn’t have to work or live in silence. But when in 1909 one of the most famous [Davidson] of all the Suffragettes was locked up in Holloway she found these privileges had been removed. Inside Holloway: Women Behind Bars, Channel 5 2020
100 years ago more than half the population couldn’t vote. The Soul of America, John Meacham reporting, ‘Sky Documentaries 2020’
The Suffrage Prisoners Were Arrested for a Political Offense. We Demand That They Be Treated as Political Prisoners. ibid. protest banner at false feeding of prisoners