The Prison Reform Trust has proposed the establishment of a women’s centre on the site of the existing visitors’ centre at HMP Holloway, which is due to close later this month. Last December the trust wrote to the Secretary of State for Justice, following his announcement of Holloway’s closure, with a proposal to work with strategic partners to adapt the visitors’ centre (a purpose-built space refurbished by the Tudor Trust) into a women’s centre. Michael Gove confirmed at a Justice Committee meeting in March that the proposal was ‘a good idea’ and was under consideration by the Ministry of Justice. He has not yet acted to provide much-needed services for vulnerable women and a proper sentencing option for north and east London courts. Pray for resources to provide safe housing, mental health and addiction services, debt counselling, employment training and a crèche.