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Germans ready to take the city. Her husband returned to the USA and she came back to Britain. At the end of the war, she was surprised to find that her husband had a new partner. She considered her marriage vows sacrosanct and she decided that she would not re-marry.
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was tasked with looking after prisoners once they had served their sentence. Kelley was not keen on this idea. This had previously been tackled by a group of different societies and with Kelley's encouragement, they formed themselves into the
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in 1973. The new design allowed for groups of sixteen prisoners. Her ideas were in the design of the buildings but her ideas were never enacted. This was a source of disappointment but she was able to recover and adapt.
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prisoners were not violent. It was her ideas that inspired the redesigned prison based on her experience as governor. It was completed in 1977. During that time she had become an
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