Joanna Elizabeth Kelley OBE (née Beaden; 1910 – 2003) was a British prison governor and civil servant.
She was promoted from Governor to a position where she oversaw the rebuilding of Holloway Prison to allow better conditions, but those ideas were never realised.
Kelley was born at a hill station named Murree in what is now Pakistan where her father, Lieutenant-Colonel William Beadon, (1867–1916) commanded the 51st Sikhs.
[2] She was educated in Kent at Hayes Court boarding school and Girton College, Cambridge where she read Economics.
During the Second World War, the couple found themselves working at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris with the Germans ready to take the city.
[6] Kelley became Assistant Director of Prisons (Women) in 1966[3] and the following year, she published When the Gates Shut about her time at Holloway.
[1] The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced in 2015 that Holloway Prison would close and would be sold for housing.