R.I.P. Pauline Campbell - Nonviolent Direct Actionist on Belhalf of Women in Prison

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Friday May 16, 2008 14:55 by Ciaron

Pauline Campbell, who was found dead yesterday morning, put the deaths of women in prison on the map. A formidable and tireless campaigner, she had personal experience of deaths in custody. Just over five years ago, her much-loved daughter Sarah, 18, died of a drug overdose at Styal prison. Campbell's body was discovered close to her daughter's grave in Oakhills cemetery in Malpas, Cheshire. As we went to press, it was not clear whether she had killed herself or died of other causes, but it looks bleak.

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http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2280....html